Winter Solstice
Stillness is necessary
while deep
invisible movements
prepare for the Spring.
Time to turn your vision inward
and let it drift
and rest
in the starry void of
Infinite Possibilities.
The image and writing is from my Comfort Coloring Book
Letter From Chris
Hi beautiful person. Thank you for reading this.
What I really want to say in this moment is that I love you. It’s winter solstice and there are so many things I could write that I think might be beautiful or helpful. But really, I just want to say I love you.
I love you. I really, really love you. Each of you. And YOU, specifically, reading this. You may have no idea how wonderful my life is because our hearts are connected. I hope you do know, though. I hope you can feel how meaningful it is when you share with me. You share your pain, confusion, grief and terrifying thoughts and feelings. Sometimes in the same breath you also share your moments of profound revelations. Or you share something about the strength you are finding in yourself or seeing in someone else. You share your triumphant, human experiences, your joys, how you were brought to your knees by beauty or love or understanding something new. We laugh and we cry together because we are moved by what you are experiencing – the whole spectrum. The whole spectrum of what it is like to be alive and human.
We share our humanity – all of it. I feel a lump in my throat and chest as I write this. I am totally in awe of being alive with you and getting to see YOUR human journey. Every one of you is gorgeous to me in a way that is so much bigger than words can express. My life is rich, connected and filled with possibilities because you share your perspectives. Because you share your own, unique but universal wisdom with me. I am so graced by this. Thank you.
I wish I could hug you right now. I wish you could see my face and feel my heart. I wish I could somehow express the enormity of this joy you bring me. I do this work because of you. Well, I do the same work internally for me. I do it because of our bravery, our willingness to look at things in a new way and because we are choosing to let ourselves out of boxes that we mistakenly put ourselves in. You help me get out of my own boxes. Because how could I not be helped when I hear your insights, feel your awe and love pouring out of you as you walk your life? I do this work inside for me and with each of you in your journeys because to me it is maybe the most powerful, meaningful thing in life: to be able to share the human experience in an honest, heart connected way. I do this work for the sharing, for the heart connection. For being in life together.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. My life is so tremendous, so soul-smilingly, radiantly gorgeous because you share with me. Together we feel some kind of Larger Presence. Love. Intelligence. And we have access to it so much more easily through our sharing of it.
Thank you. That is what I want to say today. Thank you and I love you so much. I would not be the same without you. My life would not be so alive, so sublime without you. And it is sublime, awe-inspiring, graced, deeply pleasurable, even as it co-exists with my own challenges and mundane, day-to-day human stuff. But maybe that is my point. All of the rough stuff is exquisite too. I see how beautiful it is in you, which helps me see it in me.
Thank you. I love you. I hope you are celebrating this time of year, whatever it means to you. I hope you are celebrating your own sublime life, because it is so clear to me that it is. With all its struggles and triumphs, daily ordinary beauty and profound moments of earth shaking AHA’s!: your life is sublime. It’s so clear to me that you are too. I always, always hope you are coming to celebrate yourself and be in awe more. I hope you can see some of what I see – that everything that you specifically experience is so wildly worthy, beautiful and rich, rich, rich.
I’m celebrating today. I’m celebrating my divine, sublime life and I’m celebrating you. Thank you for all you bring to my life, for all you live and for all the ways your living and loving makes everyone’s lives better. I really, really mean that. I love you.
Heart connected and shining with you,
Chris
