A Heavy Load

Day 16 of the Soul Card Journey
with Elizabeth Crawford at Soul's Music
Soul Cards by Deborah Koff-Chapin at http://www.touchdrawing.com/

Sometimes the load

Traveler carries

reaches as high

as her head,

the path

pitches

steeply

before her;

her strength

falters,

and the worm

of doubt

creeps in:

"there is no way

I can

possibly

go on."

At those times,

Traveler

needs  to

stop a while

beside

a rippling stream,

listen to  water

trickling over

rocks,

raise her vision

beyond the journey

and the heavy load

to the horizon,

where eagles

soar the heavens,

where the vastness

of the sky

erases all

but glory

from her

mind;

to allow the

 sighing trees

to breathe into her

their deep peacefulness,

and renew her

strength.

After a time,

she then

is able to

lift her load

and resume

the path,

knowing it is

leading her

exactly where

she is

meant to go,

knowing

there will be

rest and ease

at the end

of this next

hard

segment

of the trail.