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Healing What Was, Embracing What Is, Visioning Greatness In What Will Be

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Channel: Mark Smith Family Tree Life Coaching · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Mark Smith shares a poem about healing past wounds, building a solid recovery in the here and now and visioning and realizing huge dreams for the future.

with your twisted gnarly trunk
you are a tenacious survivor of long past scorching heat, travail and malnourishment
small in comparison with what is and what will be
I love you, my heart, my tree of the past
I water you daily to bring you health and healing
you almost perished in your dark hour
your sister died in the homeland of past lives
and yet, there was still great beauty in your gorgeous orange blossoms

you caught my eye the very first day I saw you
with your majestic, willowy branches dancing in the wind
two lovey deer calling and beckoning us to our true belonging
you are good and strong and solid
SO much better than the tree of the past
as we turned sideways into the light and disappeared
you welcomed us and gave us sweet sanctuary
and yet there was something gnawing at me, longing for more

my future tree is magical and tropical and sexy
I could never have even dreamed of owning such a tree
But I am now visioning dreams beyond my dreams beyond my wildest dreams
you came to me
anchoring my sacred place with grace and sizzle and class
the fact is that it was I who brought you into being
with courage and sweat and faith and blood and tears and partnership with my lovely one
you are my victory dance

we are all issued a past
some more twisted and damaged and challenging than others  
but WE are then charged to build a workable, functional and sustainable present
with mixed and varied sometimes painful, sometimes rewarding results

heal your past wounds with a focused vengeance
I said heal your past wounds with a focused vengeance
embrace your present with methodical, determined recovery work
and then shoot for the stars my brothers, my sisters
don’t let anyone ever tell you that you aren’t good enough
go make it happen
and when your big magic dreams show up 
go to dancin!

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