I turned the page back to find March 4, 2013 one month prior at the top of the page.
Today I see these words and a quick thought follows: "We are all scarred, scared and sacred."
Our scars are sacred gifts connecting us to one another, revealing who we really are. Our scare is sacred for it too connects us with others and with ourselves. I suspect everyone experiences some aspect of fear even those who don't know it. To be alive is to feel fear. Often those most scarred and scared are the ones most adamant they aren't.
Our scare potentially connects us with our truer self if we listen and lean into it rather than run, hide, ignore, suppress, divert, medicate and mediate it away. Yes, even meditation can at times be used to ignore fear rather than gently listen and care.
It is with this fourth word, Care, whose letters are embedded somewhere in each of the others that we learn to hear, see, sense, feel and find the sacred in the scarred and scared.
We are all scared, scarred and sacred and it is through care for ourselves and one another that we find our connections, healing, whole-ing,
Imagine the Shift to care.
-Dawn, The Good News Muse, 4 April 2013
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