Saturday, January 27, 2007

Your Conversation
By Don Iannone

Your life boils down to a conversation
that started at your birth, and carries on
until the day it is over, or
when you decide you can carry it no further.
For most of us,
this conversation is like water:
trickling at times,
gushing at others, and
when it's really cold, freezing up
like a frozen pond in the midst
of a Minnesota winter.
This conversation, flowing in so many directions,
always finds its way back to what matters;
like why you suffer so
about your own self-perceptions,
or why you think
you are so unworthy of God's love.
Like all conversations, your conversation
must involve both talking and listening.
Always there must be another,
even if it's an imagined other,
for a conversation to take place.
Tune into the conversation flowing through you.
Be sure to listen first,
and once you're plugged in,
ask the hard questions;
that is those whose answers you fear the most.

Note: Inspired by David Whyte's recent seminar in Cleveland.

7 comments:

Bob said...

Confronting!

jel said...

I like it!

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

Thanks Rob and jel. David Whyte is fabulous. An Irishman, poet, storyteller, change agent, spiritual teacher and naturalist. He was wonderful. Two great days in his presence.

Anonymous said...

really nice.

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

Thanks Lalitha.

Janice Thomson said...

Love the last 2 lines in this Don...takes courage to face one's demons but face them we must if peace is to be ours.

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

Thanks Janice! Face those demons straight on...with love in your heart.

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