Love's Journey
The Butterfly's Song is Love's Journey renamed, so the content is the same, just the title has been changed, however both versions are available for purchase.
Love's Journey
Forward
I began writing poetry at the age of 12. I did not know it would aid me in discovering a new intimacy with my own spirit, teaching me about love and revealing to me who I am on the path of knowing thyself.
Meditation further aided me in this process which took me to the depths of my own shadow and back again into my light with a newfound sense of peace and a wisdom I would have not had otherwise.
I believe that all that has been my life, all the heartache, the love I have known has been the path I was meant to go down to learn about myself. You cannot truly know another unless you know yourself.
Though not an easy journey, I am grateful for the destination I have now arrived at.
Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look to see who’s there.
~Rumi
Acknowledgements:
I want to acknowledge my husband first and foremost. His love is a bright spot in my life and better than anything I have ever experienced. He has always supported my writing and believed in me. You are a gift in my life.
I want to acknowledge Kathryn Leeman, my spiritual teacher in my twenties. She taught me much with her knowledge and wisdom. It was from her I first began to learn about the human shadow, mirrors, the ways of the warrior, the healer, the visionary and the teacher. I want to acknowledge, also, the women I sat beside as I learned these things. I learned much through your passing through my life.
I want to acknowledge those I have loved as you were also my teachers, showing me how to love and how to be, bringing me to the realization that you were there with me as a reflection of where I was at that time. You were my gifts including my first and second husband and men who were boyfriends, and most especially my mother and my daughters who have been my most difficult teachers of all in my quest for loving myself.
a story of transformation...
Butterfly represents a need for
change and greater freedom,
and at the same time it represents
courage: one requires courage to
carry out the changes necessary
in the process of growth.
Butterfly medicine is the never-ending cycle of self-transformation, reincarnation, and magick. To use Butterfly medicine, you must astutely observe your position in the cycle of self-transformation or transmutation. Like Butterfly, you are always at a certain station in your life activities. You may be at the egg stage, which is the beginning of all things. This is the stage at which an idea is born, but has not yet become a reality. The larva stage is the point at which you decide to create the idea in the physical world. The cocoon stage involves "going within"; doing or developing your project, idea, or aspect of personality. The final stage of transformation or transmutation is the leaving of the chrysalis and birth. The last step involves sharing the colors and joy of your creation with the world. Butterfly can give clarity to your
mental process, help you organize
the project you are undertaking,
and assist you in finding the next
step for your personal life or career.
The main message to be obtained
from Butterfly is that you are ready to
undergo some type of transformation
or internal growth.
The Butterfly has known many forms before it takes flight.
It is the mind, and the ability to know the mind or to change it.
It is the art of transformation.
-information on butterfly medicine found here:
http://www.birdclan.org/butterfly.html
The Butterfly’s Song
The spiritual path
Full of twists and turns
A road upon the map of the soul
The destination usually a transformation of
sorts
The butterfly’s song
A school of review
That begins timidly
Toes in the water, a testing to see
How it feels
Then comes the time when we must dive in
To the pool of lessons
A place of uncertainty, the roller coaster ride
Taking us along
A soul ready comes through this tunnel
To a renewal of spirit
Light being cast
Applause rings out
As the universe celebrates
The new birth
Love's Journey
A journey of discovering one’s self through love
Love's Journey is a journal of discovery about myself through love and it’s many experiences. I learned that love is but a mirror or reflection that life brings to you with many faces and in different ways.
The Knowing came about as time brought me to a transformation in my life that I have been going through for the past two years. I lived a life of struggle and what appeared to be one disappointment after another. I finally surrendered after my third divorce to a man I married twice. Having to revisit heartache once again I asked God to show me what to do as I realized that up to this point I had not found any sense of contentment within. I did much soul searching, meditated and prayed my way through this. One day I awoke with a new sense of awe and enchantment that has followed me ever since. I have a new peace inside of me that I have never known before. Life is a gift, love is a gift and I have a new appreciation for life that sustains me. I am now married to a man who is different than any relationship of my past.
"Things do not change; we change."
~Henry David Thoreau
Excerpt
Self-acquaintance is a rare condition."
~ Robert Henri
Tonight was good and bad. I don’t feel sad right now though, which is odd. I went to a meeting. Steve walked in ten minutes before the meeting would start. I was sitting at a table in the club. When he walked in I know I lit up like a Christmas tree. As soon as he came in the door he saw me sitting there. His eyes lit up too. We both smiled. I got up, he came towards me and we hugged. Then I said I want to make love to you which makes me remember what started all of this between us. It was when he and I were friends and he came up to me and said I want to make mad, passionate love to you. That kind of statement certainly turns my head from a man I find attractive. Anyways, when I said I wanted to make love to him he said I don’t know, I’ll think about it. I just stood there after buying a water and then he whispered to me, “What about tomorrow?” I told him I can’t. He ended up saying okay to tonight. We made love twice, we kissed, we talked for a few hours.
another excerpt from book
Photo by Patricia Sanders
Dawning
Dawn
A bridge
I cross over
When morning comes
Just when I think
I know
The realization
That I don’t
Becomes
The knowing
