This speaks to the heart of extending loving-kindness and compassion towards ourselves and others. My response: Yes! Yes!! YES!!! 💗 Molly
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To Be Fully Human
Comedians need a space to cry
And spiritual leaders need a space
to share their insecurities
and how vulnerable they feel.
Religious people need a space
to share their doubts
And priests need a space to confess
their desires
Mothers need a space to wail
about how regularly
we long to escape motherhood
And parents need permission
to curl their hurts into fetal position
and to cradle their hearts.
It must be okay for saints
to also have scuff marks
And for the monk to long
to come down from the mountaintop.
Doctors need a space
to talk about their addictions,
Mystics must be allowed
to also trudge
through the mundane,
And we need to be able to tell God
we hate Him
now and then
to stay in honest and whole relationship.
Dear one, to be fully human,
we must be allowed to share
our full experience
of strength and struggle
in a way that doesn’t threaten our belonging
We must grow into hearts
that can hold all parts of each other.
For our light
to go on sustaining itself
it must be allowed its shadow.
— Chelan Harkin
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