A LIFE TO LOOK BACK ON with its FUN & the PAIN

Poems from my past time, here. . . . just know that I'm not in the mood of these poems, at the present time. I am in such a great place in my life, now.

Justified Anger

I’m tired.

I’m tired of thinking that everyone knows better than me.

I’m tired of feeling drained by the love I’ve never been extended.

I don’t want my own self-pity.

In my mind I constantly attempt to justify that what I feel,

what I think,

what I reason,

with so much contemplation,

while trying so hard to be fair to everyone else.

I am constantly wanting SOMEONE to see the good in me.

But everyone that I have poured so much heart into

has just turned their backs on me.

I cried every day.

Tonight I have been crying slow hot tears,

crying overpowering, intense tears, feeling a big sucking hole in my chest.

I hurt

And nobody cares, but me.

I think my pain is okay.

My pain is right.

I don’t owe anyone justification for this hurt.

He cuts my spirit up.

All of the things that I have done to make a connection to him have simply failed.

I am devastated by him.

Stunned.

If he intentionally mapped out a plan to break my heart, he couldn’t have been smoother.

I am so angry. So hurt. So confounded. So betrayed.

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Found, Not Lost

Are You dangling? Are you holding on to life?

Are you here?

Being-fully-alive?

Finding myself has been a journey.

And I love where the journey has led me.

Losing myself has never happened.

Thank you.

Denying parts of my self never seemed right to me

although encouraged.

"I Will Not Be Broken..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hplvz3XdeKw

Being some thing other than what I am
just seems pointless to me,

but so many do it that way.

If I’m going to work hard at something, it might as well be,
being the authentic me,

not a pretentious me.

In the end of either of those two choices,

Consider a pretentious person.

Who is she?

What does she know about herself?

What does she love about herself?

How can she take what she knows about herself
and relate it to others?

How can she feel? How can life move through her?
How can she receive life?

What does she really know?

What is real to a pretentious person?



An authentic person.

Who is she?

What does she know about herself?

What does she love about herself?

How can she take what she knows about herself
and relate it to others?

How can she feel? How can life move through her?
How can she receive life?

What does she really know?

What is real to an authentic person?


Which one will you be?

Betrayal of your self is the worst betrayal.

In the name of what, would anyone choose to pretend who she is?

Great pretenders are also great at denying what they feel.

Denying what you feel will kill you.

Some pretend to be authentic,

but it’s still pretending.

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"Once we believe in ourselves . . .

we can risk

curiosity . . .

wonder . . .

. . . and spontaneous delight

or any experience

that reveals

the human spirit.

Opening up

a way

of touching . . .

and judging:

Hills can be obstacles or glorious delight. When a child asks about God,
what God do we name?

Someone 'up there' . . . ?
an invisible person . . . ?

Why not answer with
the experience of love
wonder
creativity
that invites children
to discover something new
in themselves
for
whatever opens us
to become more human
is flesh
of the God we can know.

. . . . . . Instead of asking:
'How should I pray?'
we should ask:
'How can I grow?'
How do I touch
what is most real in myself
and others -

That something
which ties us into the world
and life?

How do we open out
to a sight
a touch
a whisper of joy
up
and
down
the spine -

Drawing these
into our faith-experience
of God-with-us?

Why not let life itself
teach us how to pray?

Developing a 'feel for life'
is
developing a 'feel for God.'

. . . . . . God touches us
in the same way that the world
and other people
touch us -

Calling,

inviting us

to become more open,

to become more human.

If we answer with all that we are -

and hope to be -

then to live

is to live in faith

that we have found
and
are
at one
with
an incarnate God.

The meadow is not God
you are not God
the patterned morning freshness is not God.

BUT
to
O P E N ... Y O U R S E L F

to meadow and morning,

to what is before you

is to find Emmanuel, to know God-with-us

as
life
in
the
moment.

We know this
in moments of beauty. . . "

from the book "Please Touch"
by Edwin M. McMahon and Peter A. Campbell

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"to believe in God is to know the thing you are shall make you live
and it will never make you do anything less. . . . . .

to believe in God is to be one of those kids who just refuses
to grow up and get older and older and die forever."

from Joseph Pintauro's little book "to believe in god", illustrated by Sister Corita Kent

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“We are All the Keepers of Justice.
. . . . . OR not.”
Sandra Hammel, aka ilovemylife

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Joseph Pintauro

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"The Glory of God is Man Fully Alive."
St. Irenaeus of Lyons

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"We think of religious activity as directed toward God - instead of man.
We believe in someone divine rather than in ourselves.
Maybe we have turned religion inside-out."
Please Touch Edwin M. McMahon & Peter A. Campbell


"The strong can not expect the weak to placate them
and call it healing."
Sandra Hammel, aka ilovemylife
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