It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up,
after a night of grief and despair,
weary and bruised to the bone,
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.
Do you have it in you? Can you dig deep even on the days when you are exhausted, riddled with grief and despair and do what needs to be done?
Life cries out in its needs whether we feel good or not. It cries out whether we are rich or poor, filled with excitement or anguish.
To take care of life and all its children; mother earth, animals, plants, our babies we must fall back onto our commitment to simply show up and do what needs to be done. It may not always be our best, or the prettiest, but we must.
It is actually in the moments when surrender to what IS and we stop fighting with life when she calls us, we actually become lifted and often inspired. It is in that inspiration that we find strength. And it is there we go back to our commitment. It is often when whatever we are facing seems impossible, we let go of the grips of trying and instead just buckle under and do what needs to be done.
When we eventually move out of the troubling situation, the exhaustion, the anguish we can see that we actually did so with great strength, and at times even nobility.
Each of us has a commitment to feed “children”. It is the way you care for your home, your community, your earth, and how you go about your life.
See the world and all the millions of people who are weary and tired and yet, somehow get up and do what needs to be done. See yourself as the little child and someone in your life cared for you, whether it was a parent, grandparent, teacher or neighbor, see the times when your little body felt loved. See those in our world who are not able to feed their children; refugees, starving places of war and horror, a momma waiting for her boy who is lost in drugs and violence. Feel their dreams coupled with desperation. See yourself now. See who you feed now. Be aware of how everyone is so deserving of love and care.
Take a breath of willingness to commit. Commit your body into the pose. Commit your thoughts to be in alignment with your vision. Commit your heart to be of love.
