Visions of free and flying winged hearts like so many renaissance cherubs
What is the heart thus liberated?
Not the one of atria ventricles, pulsing and pumping
Not the one battered and broken when love is lost
It is the innermost heart
The connection to soul
The source of deep wisdom
The liberated heart yearns for connection, desires deep inner wisdom, aches to come home to itself
A heart open to truth
A heart open to joy
A heart open to harmony
A heart open to stillness
A heart open to love
Forever conscious of the flow of energy like a barometer to storms, a canary in the mineshaft
Accepting the magic God offers
The beauty
The learning
The guidance
It dances to the song of the Universe, of Heaven
It flies in the glory of freedom
To know true freedom, first fully surrender
A surrender of self
A surrender of attachment
Limited, fettered, chained this heart of mine?
And what forges these chains and by what authority?
The regrets of things past that cannot be changed
The fears for a future that might never be
The shoulds and the oughts, the reaction, the self-debasing…
And what brings me home, home to my heart?
The harmony in nature
The stillness
Being open to love
To give, to receive
The appreciation of all that I am, of all my possibilities
The gratitude for all that I have been given
Look, look at self
Feel, feel my body
Love you and love me too
Open heart to learning
Fly with joy filled wings
Liberated heart connecting with soul
Love
Words by Dr Jane Barker
