The Quiet Teacher
An Invitation, a Poem & a Reading by the Sea
The Quiet Teacher
I breathe better here. Here where sand meets sea, meets sky, meets setting sun. Here where I am released from the burden of trying. What seemed so convincingly worthy of worry yesterday sifts like warm sand through open hand. The quiet teacher inside and all around, invites me to hush. Invites you too. To hush everything that is somewhere else, everything that is anywhere other than here. This is your life, she whispers, cup it in your warming hands. Let the warm seep into what is numb, knotted, frozen, afraid. Know that every bit of it is God breathing all over you. And I don’t mean the fist in the sky kind of God. I don’t mean the God with small, stern, squeezing arms. I mean God whose arms are less like arms and more like wings. More like sun or song— the quiet teacher who warms and grows and lifts, who invites the whole worried world to hush, to sing— to wake. To wake.
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Thank you beautiful Julia. This is just the most soothing balm for my soul today. Your wisdom is shining forth and blessing me across the oceans. Yes, my experience too...I've never regretted anything that pushes me outside my comfort zone (when I do it with awareness and loving kindness...even when it is hard!!) Love to you xo