“INSIDE”
~ David Whyte

Inside this sitting here
this mind pulling knees up close to the chest with tense hands.
Inside this movement of anxiety for the body
and its worries of money,
and its teeth grinning falsely to
the solution of all things surrounding,

is a seed.

And hands pressing down into the soil,
and dreams of generations in the seed
about to wake.

Tonight I will sleep with my worries
through dreams dark with soil
and the heaving cataclysm of the spade
turning earth around me, not speaking of air
or light fused with greenness,
but of darkness and the first leaves
like hands in prayer
clasped inside the seed.

~David Whyte

An AFFIRMATION FOR YOU:
~ Rick Nichols 

On this new day of change
I choose to leave the past behind.
On this bright new day of change
I choose to let things be as they are.

On this encouraging new day of change
I choose to hold a prayer of peace for tomorrow.
On this exciting new day of change
I choose to hold a vision of prosperity for the future.

On this blessed new day of change
I see bright new leaves, like hands in prayer
pushing through thick husk of seed
and dark heavy soil, emerging into the nurturing light.

On this beautiful day of change
I am absolutely certain that all is well in the world.