Healers, therapists,
friends, and lovers!
When you sit with a friend
in pain,
when their world no longer makes sense;
when confusion rages
and
no rest is to be found.
Just for a moment,
will you
resist the temptation
to make things better,
to reassure them,
to provide
answers,
even to heal them?
Will you offer your
stillness, your listening,
your presence, and the warmth
of your immediacy?
Will you hold them in your
heart
with the same tenderness
of a mother holding her little one?
Will you embrace them where
they are,
without needing them to change or transform
according to your own
needs and schedule?
Will you stay close,
holding
your own impatience and discomfort near?
Will you look into their
eyes
and see yourself?
Will you stay in the inferno
of healing with them,
trusting in disintegration,
knowing that you are only
witnessing
the falling away of an old dream?
Sometimes in doing nothing
everything
is undone,
and love is revealed to be
the
only true medicine.
Jeff Foster & Matt
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