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Refuse to fall down,
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
Refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven,
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled,
and it will be filled,
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you
from lifting your heart
toward heaven--
only you.
It is in the middle of misery
that so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing good
came of this,
is not yet listening.
I dedicated God Never
Hurries, “For my crone friend, Rosemary.” She too was a faithful gardener and would retreat to the
soil and her plants for solace when life got difficult. Crone friend is what she called me and
said we were entering our crone years and needed to share a woman’s
wisdom. Through a mistake of her
own she learned to say, “This is what I know and believe today, but ask me
tomorrow and I may know it a different way." Humility graced her.
Besides teaching me I have the freedom to be wrong, she also gave me the
freedom to be wherever I am at present (the only place I really can be) after I
confessed to her there was a time in my life when I actually felt
invincible. She said to me, “Maybe
it was a time in your life when you needed to feel invincible.” And whenever I shared my troubles with
her, she saw the promise of change through my discomfort.
Rosemary died a young, but very wise crone.
What if we shared what becomes clear to us through our
misery and mistakes?
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