Love Abundant
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Over the course of the Advent season I used the new devotional book, Fully Human, Fully Divine by Whitney R. Simpson to help me enter into an embodied start to the new liturgical year and my new life season back in my hometown. One of the weekly practices was writing short acrostic poems. If you follow me on social media you’ll know that I shared a new poem the first three weeks of Advent. Early in the week leading up to Christmas I caught a very bad cold. It wasn’t COVID, but it knocked me out and caused me to slow down and allow my body to recover. Unfortunately, it also caused me to miss the Christmas festivities I was looking forward to. Below I share the poems: Hope, Peace and Joy that I wrote during this time.
Holy beginnings create
Openhearted moments of presence for
Promises thought impossible to
Echo within my soul.
Patient faith
Embraces my being with my
Assembly of ancestors
Celebrating this season’s
Ever-reaching peace.
Just breathe- the
Outstretched arms of grace will wrap
You with Yuletide joy.
As I’ve healed from my cold and begun contemplating what I want to cultivate in this new year and new life season, abundance has kept popping up. I’ve realized how much good and wonder were present last year that propelled me into this current season. It is calling me to deeply live into the abundant love that is guiding my heart and is all around each of us. Thus, the intention I hope to hold with me this year is embody abundance. Below is the fourth and final acrostic poem, Love, which has helped me to envision my intention.
Looking inward
Opens up space for
Vulnerability to
Embody the abundance that’s all around us.
