I wrote this during my first round with cancer after getting my kidney removed. This is for you who have or are having your lives blown apart. You Are Not Alone!
You Are Not Alone
It's alright to be discombobulated.
It's ok to live in the shambles where everything is blown apart.
Those who live lives of firm certainty cannot know transformation.
Fundamentalism is a head game of our self-control.
Until your life has been torn apart
as you stand on the edge of oblivion
Until our control falls apart into the chaos of unknowing
Until our ego melts and burns in the cauldrons of life
Until we have no whisper of hope left within us
as we stand naked and broken
our molecules on the cusp of being unmade
We cannot know in every cell of our being
the grace and love of God that transforms us
Being in being
Woven with eternal threads
of burning, living, light
where we become
Something we cannot fathom
Such is the grace of God
that unmakes us to make us whole
Where rivers of bottomless compassion flow,
with the imperishable light burning in our souls.
Where we companion with grace, and walk each other home.
You are not alone.
~ Bob Holmes #livingwithcancer