BODYPSALMS

Reach by Dobee Snowber

You have gone through
a massive shift, your body is calling
you to bodyrest
 time to take in support
beneath your feet
encompass your world
from every small and large place –
friends, family, beloveds,
practitioners: medical and alternative
and the wider embrace of the divine
 the great Love.

We are each called to surrender
to change
 inhabit your bodyspirit
for strength runs through the ruptures
builds from the bends – of life transitions

Now is the time to lean
into the love that is with you
let your body receive
a transfusion of beginnings
here in the invitation

to a new chapter of health
altered from before
an honored passage to a season of clarity
where you will

be free to archive the beauty of your life
 venture into the dawn of desire within
your loss will be your entrance
to a new way of being.

Drink in the support of care

trust  in the landscape of your own heart
beckoning you
to the shore of wellness
breathing you from the inside out

and most of all –

be patient towards all that is not known
rest your head in the pillow of comfort
where you are held
from a much deeper place

and know your pain is stitching you to healing
where you are being
re-created to enter
the magnificence of your own life.

Pursue ease.
as a guiding principle
live with simplicity and clarity
cultivate more space in your life

Observe how you take such pleasure
in open expanse  –
geographies of sea and lakes
rocks and seaweed jetting out into low tide
the meeting of water and sky
the space between
what is solid and what is air

What you are drawn to outwardly
teaches you everything
about your inward leanings
the visual feast before your eyes
is a scent of the life you yearn for
rhythms of lapping waves are the rhythms of
your own life which nourish you
seasons of change are the canvas
of your emotional terrain
painting across your soul

You may be compressed on many sides
responsibilities can enhance and devour your life
Allow a horizon in your world
you need more than a slit of light
you require splashes everywhere
color infusing and interrupting
the rituals of daily activity
Bring on the oranges and yellows
in the midst of dark greens
reds in the midst of night black

Your love of the natural world
reveals your deepest longing
Honor all textures in the journey
The unexpected, the uninvited
each has its purpose:
nourishment, reflection, expanded living

Invoke spaces of reprieve
within acts of doing
rest in moments of pause
and know that each sip of beauty
in creation’s hand is
an invitation into ease.