Bethesda - by Carmen Platt: Recent Episodes

Bethesda

Bethesda refers to a reservoir, an empty container, a “house of mercy”. Likewise I want my words to be like empty containers, seeking healing for our raw and authentic human experience through stories, truth and honesty. May these words be empty, to be filled.

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If you have forgotten to look into the mirror of your heart, or whatever you want to call it

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The little brave bear that each of us holds

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Be quick at fixing things between you and your neighbors

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Wake up to joy, each morning when you lift your head

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The career of love takes hold of it all

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as the whole universe changes, adapts, feel it give you a tap on the shoulder, whispering: ‘All shall be well.’

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Come sit at His feet, let the fleeting moment feed you.

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Why don’t you be the human you were created to be.

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Stay steady. Stay ready. Stay tuned to wonder!

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Trying my best to know, You are in control

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As You pick up my pieces to piece it together

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This is the best thing you can do now

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You are strong, when I am weak

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Lead me through these uncertainty

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Find my way back to seeing for the first time, time and time again.

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Like the generosity of the Sun.

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Do not worry about your life.

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Like a child at the breast of her Mother, so you will be when you realize, there’s really no other.

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Show me all that You see, like wading through an Art Gallery - You and me. We.

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I might not change the world, but I’ll hold up a mirror

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Be your very own “me”.

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Grow up, and grow deep, seeping into childlike wonder.

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Wear the dress made by the Custom-made Creator

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A soul, thirsty for seeking.

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I pray that I will not occupy my mind with such fluff, that I come to miss the life-altering stuff.

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Be soil, to realize you are so much more.

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How God stretches His hand through everything we draw near.

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Welcome to this day

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What would you say to your mountain?

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Living as one body

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Become what you believe

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You are the Holder of Needle and Thread

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You submerge yourself in each moment

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Fasten yourself like Velcro to Love.

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Faith is a whole lot like being brave

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Listen. Offer yourself to it, the Very whisper that called you to Existence...

then love.

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Look at those around you.

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Bring whatever you have. And give it away.

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My purpose lies within You. Not within what I do.

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Simply caressing your cat, can make you meet up with God.

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Don’t seek performance, seek to come to know the One who knows you, without pretense.

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Beauty in a single breath

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To be you, and put not one bit of pressure on yourself, to be more that what is expected. Be the container, He’ll be the sustainer.

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Stay true to the Tree

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The original design I pray we’ll receive

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Wonderfully accepted by the Untamed One

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All of creation is carriers of Beauty

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See and be amazed by seeing

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Playing in the garden with her Father

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Receive the childlike wonder

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Follow the tiny guideposts of every day life

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Breathe, and feel wonder creeping in

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To be in touch with the Good Touch

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Reveal to me the Bride You see

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Faith is in the gaze of the soul

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Let’s build instead of break down

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As we enter a new year, take hands with it

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A tribute to 2019 and in great anticipation for 2020.

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Painting to the beating of my heart

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Stare in a mirror today, as you say a breath prayer

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For all those who forgot the grace of a momentary prayer, that echoes into the length of days.

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Holding on, even when you hardly feel like holding on

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How to bring your question marks closer

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Lean into the words to wake a creation within

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What sets your soul on fire?

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Tick yes to living life to its fullness

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Follow the footsteps in the moment

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Fairies need bedtime storytellers too!

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Listen to the talking trees

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Fully immersed in human experience - that is holy

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I started seeing everything as miraculous

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Belonging to this live we live and breathe and share

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Carry the life you’ve been given, as it gives you the teachings of which you must know in this one life you live.

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Seeking meaning in the mundanity of life, in the mystery thereof.

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To live a life on a living rock

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Living a life of color

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The attentive prayer of listening

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Be glad, even when you are sad. Be glad in what is created.

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Waiting through the “even thoughs”

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Self love begins in your very body, from where all other love springs forth

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How I become one with wonder, with light.

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The story of redemption and up cycling your life

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Fill your longs with joy

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Searching for the scent, sent from above

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A poem to spark a road of stretching, and not just comfort. This is a road of magic in the tragic. If you simply honor the stretch.

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Op hierdie vrouedag eer ek die vroue wat my gevorm het deur die jare - ek sien jou!

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Be firmly planted in each season of your life - with or without leaves.

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Pause a little, ponder on the livability of life, making your life worth living - being a home you get to discover

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Align to be in line

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Kindness to one another, as kindness to oneself.

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Heaven is locked up in our very human bones and experiences

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Rest, and leave the rest to be

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Be filled with wonder

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Be of one mind, undivided, in love

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Scout happiness in all of its forms

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Gratitude and hope in the small

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Present moment devotion

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Keep an eye open in the everyday life

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August clearing up

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Be salt and season the earth

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How are living your life?

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I forgive myself today...

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You are a Garden, in this garden of a world

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Vol eer en lewe en dankbaarheid, in my moederstaal

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To be full is to become empty

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Stories are an immense part of healing. So tell your story.

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Wonder, even when trust is a bit rusty

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Become who you are

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Love thy neighbor, after you learn to fully love yourself

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Poetry for the seekers, the wanderers and the wonderers.