Regular followers will know of my love for the humble acrostic, and recently I decided to write a few to hand out as New Year blessings when we had a celebratory lunch at the place where I work (we hadn’t had time before Christmas). It was such fun to see the joy people got from them, saying how appropriate the word was to them right now, and that they were going to put them up somewhere they could see them each day. Anyway, thought y’all might enjoy reading a few of them too…so here’s a selection:
Curiosity
Challenge me to find my own way
Under no circumstances give me the full map
Revealing all in a neat dissection of mystery
Ink in recommended destinations
Or the worst places to be avoided, then
Set me free with my pencil
In faith that I can carve my own path
Trial and error, not tried and tested,
Yields the richer wisdom
Stillness
Stop for a heartbeat
Then let the sound of that inner drum
Initiate an in breath that
Lingers, and an out breath that
Lazily lets go into
Now, and now, and now
Empty of expectation
Stare brightly into that peaceful pond and
See yourself undistorted by life’s ripples
Equanimity
Emotional eruptions like to be
Questioned, given loving attention, and –
Ultimately, understood
And held with spaciousness
Not judged, or condemned, rather
Invited to bring to the table
Multiple experiences to be digested
Into nourishing insight
That allows the heart and soul to say
“Yes, you too are welcome”