Yes.
As I began to be aware that there was a ‘self’ in me that had choice, fragmented and need-driven as that ‘self’ was, I came to a fork in the road one day, a realization. Do I – in the words of M. Scott Peck’s 2003 book which I had read and forgotten years before, but which title remained etched in my mind to rise to the surface – take the road less traveled? Or do I stay ‘comfortably’ miserable? As a recovering co-dependent, I had recognized how my saying “yes” to any and all good deeds and people was my unconscious striving for security, for approval, for love, but now with this new awareness of being truly known and beloved beyond time, even as fragmented and ego-driven as this “self” was, was there another kind of yes? And what would I be saying “yes” to – what did I truly and sincerely desire? And so one day, after much struggle and trepidation, in a weak and wobbly voice, I said a conscious “Yes”. But my heart had all along been saying Yes! Yes! Yes! to God, to a deep desire for authentic, abundant Life.
What do you, in your heart of hearts, truly and sincerely desire?
Yes
Standing...
On a cliff...
On a shore...
At a meadow's edge...
Waiting...
For what?
Certainty?
Knowledge?
Being right?
Being better than?
Wondering... can I
Enter mystery?
Be willing to hurt?
Be willing to feel pain?
Be endlessly loved,
gazed upon,
transformed?
Not knowing ... yet knowing
Ineffeable Grace,
always there
in, around, and amongst me...
in the
standing,
in the waiting,
in the wondering.
So, Yes...
