ROUND AND ROUND SHE GOES by Cynthia Cady Stanton

 

Elijah O’Donnell

ROUND AND ROUND
SHE GOES

Same old coffee,

Same old sound of the heat kicking on,

Same old kitty begging for a treat.

Same old aches in the shoulders and hips. 

Same old face in the mirror 

with wrinkles that haven’t magically disappeared

as promised.

Same old anxieties arise from the heart,

bringing the same old grip to muscles and joints.

It’s a new day 

and another chance to begin afresh, but

everything already feels and looks 

the same. 

I wonder where gratitude fits in

when discovering change is the desire

amidst the predictable and suffocating sea.

And yet,

what if change arrives with a new symptom

or a devastating loss?

What if there is a crushing fall 

or a sudden crisis arriving with 

a distraught voice on the phone?

Change can arrive like that

in an instant.

This is a reality in the vulnerability of life.

We all know this.

So maybe greeting the everyday familiar

is a good thing…

and waking up in the same landscape

is cause for celebration.

Perhaps remembering to be grateful

really does provide the way out…

Suddenly, Wisdom brings a perceptible lift

gifting a newness to the day.

© Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton is a woman with a deepening awareness of life and spirit, and a desire to share her spiritual understandings as a helpful, healing presence for others. She lives in the roles of mom, wife, friend, sister, and grief counselor. Cynthia is what she describes as "an accidental poet." She discovered her poetic voice four years ago while writing in a coffee shop. Since then, she has published hundreds of poems on her blog. Her voice is one of reassurance and higher understanding. She offers her writings as a means to promote love, grace, mindfulness, and healing. Cynthia has been a featured contributor on Phoebe.com several times and had a poem nominated as poem of the month on Spillwords.com. You can find her poems here: becomingandbeholding.com.

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Grateful Heart by Cynthia Cady Stanton

 

Balazs Simon 

Grateful Heart

A lifting above

and a grounding below,

a warming at the center –

when I remember.

It is like the unexpected gift

presented with love

and perfect timing.

Or the lightness of being

that comes

with surrender

and trust –

even in the midst of

struggle or pain.

I hold onto it

even as I let go,

allowing the divine

to move through,

heal me with its dawning.

“I was born with a grateful heart,”

says the patient

on her dying bed.

I marvel at the gift she has

and how it fills her up at the end,

easing the way.

And then I remember,

so was I.

© Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton is a woman with a deepening awareness of life and spirit, and a desire to share her spiritual understandings as a helpful, healing presence for others. She lives in the roles of mom, wife, friend, sister, and grief counselor. Cynthia is what she describes as "an accidental poet." She discovered her poetic voice four years ago while writing in a coffee shop. Since then, she has published hundreds of poems on her blog. Her voice is one of reassurance and higher understanding. She offers her writings as a means to promote love, grace, mindfulness, and healing. Cynthia has been a featured contributor on Phoebe.com several times and had a poem nominated as Poem of the Month on Spillwords.com. You can find her poems here: becomingandbeholding.com.

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Enough Already by Cynthia Cady Stanton

 

Jill Wellington

Enough Already

Don’t worry about the direction

ahead, or the matters of the day.

Simply place your hand

on your own heart

and feel the love there – love 

that was given long ago

that you may have forgotten.

 

Don’t be the person who

allows busyness to run

over your life, squashing it

with good intentions, and

all that learned stupidness which

pulls us away from

this preciousness given.

Remember those moments

when God has broken through –

those glimpses when you

knew beyond a doubt that

you are made of the same stuff

as the flowers and trees, and

forever is possible – that 

Love is You, and 

You are Love.

 

Let yourself glow, please.

For those who do, are

born in true freedom.

For in stepping aside from 

the pettiness of all our 

misdirected ways, we can

float like a feather

on the breath of God.

© Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton

Cynthia Cady Stanton is a woman with a deepening awareness of life and spirit, and a desire to share her spiritual understandings as a helpful, healing presence for others. She lives in the roles of mom, wife, friend, sister, and grief counselor. Cynthia is what she describes as "an accidental poet." She discovered her poetic voice four years ago while writing in a coffee shop. Since then, she has published hundreds of poems on her blog. Her voice is one of reassurance and higher understanding. She offers her writings as a means to promote love, grace, mindfulness, and healing. Cynthia has been a featured contributor on Phoebe.com several times and had a poem nominated as Poem of the Month on Spillwords.com. You can find her poems here: becomingandbeholding.com.

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