Sunday, November 5, 2017

Slumbering Dreams

How do I heal the ache inside of me?  How do I transform the black hole of emptiness where love and dreams used to co-exist into a fully functioning and healthy heart again?  Is that hole where my passions and dreams used to exist?  Or is it where I used to hold onto the love I received, storing it with my dreams for darker days? So that I could tap into that reserve whenever I might feel lonely or lost.  I want so badly to believe it is just a temporary situation and that my dreams and desires are simply being held so tightly, protected from any current reality, that they will emerge like carbon under pressure to shine brilliantly and show a quality of resilience unlike any other dreams before them. 

My dreams cannot be dead.  They must be just in a deep slumber, waiting to be awakened.  Once awakened, they will shine brightly and be a beacon for others in search of rekindling their own dreams.  You see, dreams don’t really die; they just go unnourished, unable to survive without care and intentional nurturing.  For you must love your dreams as you do yourself, as they were born of you, spawn of your deepest desires.

As our dreams are slowly being prodded awake from their long hibernation, we need to ask if they still resemble our dreams of long ago, or have they aged and matured while we ignored them and let them lay fallow?  With fresh, but tired, eyes we look at these dusty dreams to try them on once again.  Do they still fit, or have years of neglect made them saggy and shape-less?  Are they too small for us now?  Have we matured into a more awakened state only to realize that our dreams were constricting or were dependent upon someone else?  If we are truly to be happy we need to scour those dreams in search of any kernels of a vision that still resonate in our hearts today.  We need to morph those dreams into ones that are pertinent to whom we are now.  We need to infuse them with the wisdom from our many life experiences.  We need to extract out the parts that don’t align anymore and smooth out the rough edges so that we can not only see our dreams clearly, but that we may feel our way to them without the pain of sharp fragments left by components ripped out.  We must facilitate our dreams compassionately.

Show them love and light so that they may benefit others.

Much Metta to All Dreamers,

Michelle

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