Belonging
The great poet John O’Donohue describes the soul as the original “house of belonging” which did not create itself but is “a presence from the divine world.” It seems that many of us walk around trying to earn a spot of worth instead of thinking as he does. He also says that the “birth of a human heart is an ongoing process,” so maybe our search for belonging must go outward before circling back around to the gift of creation? I was quite young the first time someone told me, “You think too much.” It was an offhand observation but...
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