There is a place within you that has never been broken. No matter what fractures and cracks, no matter what seismic blows have battered your heart year after year after wearying year, within you there is something that grows strong, that stands. It has never been laid low by storm, never drowned in flood, never frozen and cracked. It has never burned to the ground, never faded away. It is that still point in your turning world, it is that deepest part of the heart that makes you the whole and complete child of God, Her perfect beloved daughter or son, and in that place, that place within you that is whole and sound…when you touch that place, you know what God has brought you here, born of this great Mama Earth to do for Her, and for all of us. Somewhere in that beating, swirling, DNA-dancing core of your being, your ground, your center, your great big silver belt buckle of shining badassery, if you can touch that place, for even a moment, you will remember for just a second, maybe even a minute, maybe someday even forever, what it is like to be whole, and completed, even as you embrace those cracks and call them your ground of being, for you will have touched that within you that is immortal, and powerful, and beautiful, and in that moment, God Himself will lead a standing ovation that here, right here and right now, this person, this soul touching soul, GETS IT.
For a minute, anyway.
But it’s a start, right?
Forget the broken places. Forget dragging those bags of dust around with you. The broken places had their shot. Do you want them in charge forever? Aren’t you bored with those “not good enough” messages? Aren’t you done being the broken girl?
Go to the source. Find that still place unbroken in your being and let it speak.
It’s time for your wholeness to speak.
So shut
up
and
listen.
I am without words. Nothing will express quite how this made me laugh (“your great big silver belt buckle of shining badassery”) and cry (“Aren’t you done being the broken girl?”) in the space of 5 seconds. Go raibh maith agat
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Yes, I’ve grown so weary of being the Broken Girl. Thank you for that very powerful message. Time to go find Hecate and embrace myself.
This should be scripture.
Wow.
I think I like wake up calls like this first thing in the morning – right before I go meditate!
Thank you again for a wonderful post!
Love & Light
Ally
I can’t believe what great timing you have! I’ve been struggling with the idea of that “spark” of divinity and whatnot that some authors like to talk about and here you go putting it in layman’s terms (greatly appreciated. Poetry has never helped me) and i understand!
Thank you!
Thank you for the reminder that regardless of may have happened in the past, what I may be struggling with in the present, or what the future may hold that I am a child of the Divine and that there is always a part of me that is whole and complete and perfect.
Awesome, awesome post. I’ve been reading your blog for years now. Your words of wisdom always inspire me and make me feel better. Thank you!
Wow! So timely after the week of being jabbed and poked, making the old wounds raw again. Thank you.
Yes.
Thank you — these are scintillating-ly perfect words for so many of us.
That was such a beautiful post! I have reading your blog for a year now, and your work (or part of your work that I have access to, I’m Brazilian and is quite dificult to me to buy your books) helped and inspired me all this time. I just got out of a huge PMS this week, I was feeling too broken, and the past two weeks I have thinking about the divine spark inside of us….your post fits perfectly. “Forget the broken places. (…) Go to the source. Find that still place unbroken in your being and let it speak. It’s time for your wholeness to speak.”
Thank you!
(and sorry for any grammar mistakes)
Beautiful! I’m actually reading your “The Body Sacred” right now, and it is seriously on of the best books I’ve read in the “body image” category and the Wiccan category. Thank you for your words. I am so happy to have my body.
This is beautiful! Absolutely stunning. Do you mind if I share a bit of it on my blog (with a linkback of course!)?
Go right ahead. Thank you for reading.