Sorrow and the Seven Graces
Learning to feel my sorrow yet walk gracefully in the world. Some days are more challenging than others. Today, I want to sit and cry and if I permit magical thinking to prevail to have the miracles of what has come to be to not be. Awareness of feelings and being true to those feelings, I believe, is the first grace- I live with awareness of my feelings of grief. This awareness has obscured my vision to see nature for I drape my grief on the flowers and trees, the vines and shrubs, the birds, sky and wind.
I don’t know why I think there are seven graces or really what the seven might be but I believe the second grace to be acceptance. I like the idea that there are seven graces or even more because I know for sure that grace is not one dimensional.