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.
