Given recent events in my life, for a while, I was being dragged down by my own dark thoughts about the world and people in it. After several phone calls and emails today, I am once again reminded that there are angels out there. This is the second time this year that I’ve been touched by angels…you’d think that I wouldn’t let myself get dragged down again. But I did. I am imperfect…and so VERY humbled once again.
I’ll try to make sure that the lesson sticks this time. I love you all.
Touched By An Angel
by Maya Angelou
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
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