If a child were to appear at your door: cold, scared, and tired from a long journey…
If he or she were anxious, in despair, full of rage, or
confused…
Would you refuse entry to the little one? Would you tell
him to come back once he dissolved his fear, replaced his anger with gratitude,
and clarified his confusion? When she healed her anxiety, mended her broken
heart, and transformed her deep feeling of unworthiness?
Would you require these things before you allowed the
little one in, held him, and provided shelter for her raw vulnerability to rest
from an ancient voyage of becoming?
In your most authoritative spiritual voice, would you urge
the little one to "get over it,” scramble to accept everything the way it
is, return immediately to the present moment, urgently forgive those who have
harmed him, quickly rid herself of her “ego,” or manifest a “higher vibration?”
Or would you offer sanctuary and safe passage from a long
passage? A warm home in which the stories, the emotions, and somatic trauma of
the little one can be illuminated, contained, and held in a tender womb of care
and loving kindness? A place of respite for the little one to find some new
meaning in a world that has forgotten and let them down.
