Heart Wholeness....a strange adventure.



“To open your heart to someone means exposing the scars of the past.”

-Unknown Author

Shalom...
not just peace to and for the world,
but a word that
means oh so much more...

"According to Strong's Concordance 7965 Shalom also means completeness, wholeness, health, peace, welfare, safety soundness, tranquility, prosperity, perfectness, fullness, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord. Shalom comes from the root verb shalom meaning to be complete, perfect and full. In modern Hebrew the obviously related word Shelem means to pay for, and Shulam means to be fully paid."

I don't know about you,

but

that is exactly what I seek....

wholeness,

completeness,

fullness,

tranquility.

I've only seen fragments of what that is,

I crave it though,

I think about it

like a tall glass of icy water on a steamy hot day,

there is a thirst,

a deep longing

somewhere in the center of my heart,

for

integration of all my parts,

 for the pieces to come together

the mended,

the patched,

the untouched,

all pulled together

completed if you will,

 put together all nice and pretty

like the look of a jigsaw puzzle

finally done after hours of sitting and searching and trying.

I haven't found the secret yet to this,

but I keep searching deep within,

I have found for the most part

it is a journey to

Discovery of self,

acceptance of who we already are

the

good

the

bad

the ugly,

all mixed, swirled and twisted.

This study of ancient heart sounds is scary at times,

pulling up the past,

living in the present

and

waiting for the future,

keeps us all busy

and

distracted.

It allows us to

keep ourselves from going inside

and

reflecting and really seeing what we have stored up, buried,

pushed behind for another day.

Truth for me..

the only times I've really had those moments of

wholeness and completeness

are the

moments that come

when my courage overtakes my fear

and

my hope outweighs dread of what I will find.

It is only then

that I'm mature enough,

adventurous enough,

brave enough if you will

to survey the scars of my heart

the good and the bad and then try to accept

what I see

as my truth for the given day.

The journey toward wholeness,

sweet tasting tranquility,

shalom

does come...but only

in tiny fragments,

when we can absorb

all we need to take in

and

when we are able to

show the world

our

actualized self

and

live into our possibility

with comfort in doing it.

Heart Wholeness...

"it ain't an easy thing"

"it ain't for the faint of heart"

"it ain't an easy job"

but it makes life

so worth living.

May we all

take a look

at who

we are and

share it openly and fully

as the potentiality of our story unfolds.

Happy Friday...

sending wishes for all of you

to have just a moment

of

Heart Shalom today.

{Hugs}

Have a great weekend.