How can we be the ones who create safety for other people to bring their troubles, longings, hopes, pain and fear our way? And how can stay long enough, and not turn away? And how do we then accompany one another as we address what we find - with love, truthfulness, patience and exquisite care?



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Like the Trees



You have been waiting for the body to say,

This is not an emergency, you are safe.

And when it finally does, in a whisper

you almost don’t believe, you can breathe

a full breath again, and then another,

at last trusting the open arms of trees,

even their menacing shadows at midnight.

Now you know everything that grows must

also feel pain, must fear and doubt until they

sense this same quickening, like sap rising

up in the trunk and spreading through

each limb. You have lived as if underground,

but now you are breaking open, breaking

free, becoming so vast and green, you make

a shady place for others to rest in.



James Crews



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