A Tender Heart
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a tender heart throbbing
joys and pains magnified
the feelings overwhelm
I am alive and grateful
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breathing deeply
I feel the peace
remembering this shall pass
moving on with life
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Apparently, I put out a very strong intention! The days following my declarations to be more spacious and focus on love, I’ve been stretched and tested with big challenges. I’d like to believe the perspective that we never receive a challenge we aren’t ready for! My solution was to write a poem honoring my tender heart and feelings. May we find the peace big enough to embrace all our feelings.
As the sun sets on one day, it surely rises on a new one. Best wishes for peace and courage to embrace all the emotions we feel that make us uniquely human – and a beautiful poem and image to capture the tenderness of those sentiments.
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Thanks for the kind wishes Dave and reminder to embrace all the feelings. It’s a new day with new feelings, experiences and cyber hugs from friends!
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Beautiful poem and speaks so well to looking within to find strength. And you know, I like that line about being grateful: for a long time I wasn’t grateful to life’s challenges, and now – especially when I “look back” at them – they were the very things that helped me to grow so much. This poem reminds me of that: to be grateful when life’s lemons emerge. Wonderfully Zen here. 🙂
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Gratitude for our challenges is a tough one. I know it’s true that they help us grow and yet during them it’s easy to get stuck and not feel at all grateful. I’m in the midst of all that this week. Send prayers or Zen monks! 🙂
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Lovely poem, Brad. My best wishes and a prayer that you will come through these challenges stronger. Keep following your commitments, tough though it may be at times.
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Thanks for the encouragement Cynthia. I’m being tested this week. 😦
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Beautiful Brad. I think everyone’s stuff is up, triggered and mirrored right now. It’s a good thing to embrace and heal them. Sounds like you are doing just that. Peace to you in the new year! Mary
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Thanks Mary, I appreciate the blessings and encouragement. I’m being tested already and falling short right now. And I know this will pass.
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Wonderful poem, thanks for sharing 🙂
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Thanks Lena. 🙂
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Tender hearts is the only way to experience love. We call it “exposing your soft gooey center.
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That’s a fun way to describe it. 🙂
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Great poem…I hear the pain but also the determination and positive expectation!! Keep at it!! Happy New Year Brad!
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Thanks Kirt. I may need continued reminders and support. 🙂
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The more we face truth, the more we release our need to stay ‘private’ in our lives, the more we open up to sharing and being honest, the more the journey begins to embrace us. It is an extremely hard lesson to learn. We allow shame to enter in to spaces it has no right to occupy. Tender hearts are what the world needs more of and it is for this reason we are all unfolding and changing and offering our loving hearts to those who are willing to risk accepting our caring…The new world is becoming a reality. Stay tender Brad! Hope your holidays were good and may our new years ahead give us love and hope….VK 🙂
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Thanks VK. I’m more than willing to stay tender. The challenge is how to handle the feelings, let them wash through me or move me toward taking care of myself and doing good in the world.
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Therein lies the great mystery….Feeling feelings is scary stuff…Easier to push them aside but the avoidance takes its toll after a while….From what I can see it means we walk head on through them, pain and all to get to the other side…Whoa! Good luck friend..We are hopefully all here for each other.. VK 🙂
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Thanks VK. I’m walking now. 🙂
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I feel your struggle to be grateful for those challenges and find a peaceful way through them Brad, but yes, those intentions must have been powerful 🙂
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You perceived my reality very well. Thanks Andrea. To a year filled with more love, peace and intention.
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I know from experience that what ever life throws our way, We grow stronger through its experiences.. And Knowing you Brad I also know that you will come through the other side of this emotion.. We should honor those emotions which stretch us to what we often feel are our limits.. As we go deeper within them We always learn something new about ourselves and others..
Life is better lived through a tender heart than one which is switched off.. Only through the heart can we Feel, And only when its open and laid bare do we really begin to Love.. And there is no greater Love than that of Looking deeper within ones own heart and loving its Divine spark do we come to that place of Peace..
Sending you Love and Blessings Brad.. We are with you as you travel along the roads you need to navigate..
Love Sue ❤
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We stated Sue. I can tell you’ve walked this path of tender hearts. Thanks for sharing your wisdom and tender heart here and on your blog. Love and gratitude. ❤
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Hugs back..
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Sending thoughts and well wishes as you leave behind another Year.. I wish you nothing but Joy Love, Peace and Happiness for 2017.. And way way Beyond..
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Thanks Sue. I happily accept your beautiful wishes. Hugs and blessing for 2017 back to you!
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❤
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Beautiful post
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Thank you Nigar. To a year with more love and compassion. Happy New Year!
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Welcome
And happy new year😇
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Beautiful. May more joys than pain be magnified in this coming year, Brad. Wishing you peace, and lots of love my friend ❤
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Thank you Julie. May we embrace our challenges, growing in love and compassion. 🙂 Many blessings to you and yours. ❤
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Yes, may we. 🙂 Thanks Brad!
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A very beautiful poem. Beautifully composed as well. Nice little wave into it, I loved it. I too write poems, but not good as you. I have a website too : incrediblepoetry.wordpress.com please visit, comment about what you think about my poems.
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Hi Nikesh and welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed my poem. I’ll explore your site. blessings, Brad
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Thank you
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At times, we don’t get to the website we want. So here’s the whole Web address. https://incrediblepoetry.wordpress.com
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This feels so good…so right, Brad! Your energy is shining in the light of love…know that you can face any adversity…any struggle…and come out the other end with more understanding…more love and compassion!! I send you lots of love energy…♡♡♡
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Thank you Lorrie. I’m getting better at remembering to go within and connect to my heart space routinely. I’m happily receiving your love too! Hugs and blessings my friend. ❤
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