Day 9: a thin place
a poem a day
Friends,
Today’s phrase is “a thin place”
What does that mean to you?
We can also think of this as liminality, but thin place brings so much up in us. I encourage you to sit with it and see what images come to your mind and heart.
A Thin Place
(Returning a turtle to the woods)
I looked in your eyes
and saw the history
of the universe in
one quick blink.
When you cannot yet see
your longing
May you breathe
in the morning fog
and exhale your questions
May your sigh dissipate
as sunlight sparkles
and burns off the mist
May you see the day
clear and rise
May you know that
air and breath are
always talking
May you know this
grace is already
infusing into you:
lungs to blood to heart
May you remember how
longing lives beyond sight
for this very reason: to pull
you ever closer to
the heartbeat of beauty
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I wrote this inspired by John O'Donohue's book of blessings, To Bless The Space Between Us ❤️
There is but a thin place
between You and I,
That thin place I call
“Beyond the veil.”
The first time I recognized
how thin it was for you,
“Mummy, I have two angels,”
An explanation of how often
you saw them ensued.
Critical illness when
you woke up and said,
“Mummy, I’m alive!”
First fall down the stairs,
“Mummy, I saw my angels.
They are with me all the time.”
Six months after your death,
“Mummy, I came a long way
to see you.”
This far distant place
you now reside,
Is but a thin place
And here I stay on the other side.