David whyte drowning

Notify me of new posts by email. THE TRUELOVE by David Whyte There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours especially if you have waited years and especially if you never believed you could deserve this loved and beckoning hand held out to you this way.

Share this: Facebook Twitter Pinterest. Just three years later, on our wedding day, this poem was read as we stood over those rushing Falls releasing all of our past, all of our failures, all of our illusions of lost dreams in to that fierce water while committing ourselves to our future. I had all but given up on myself and then this. And if you click on his picture below, it will take you to some selected poems you can read online.

I am thinking of faith now and the testaments of loneliness and what we feel we are worthy of in this world. Years ago in the Hebrides I remember an old man who walked every morning on the grey stones to the shore of baying seals. But why would we want to?

Why indeed. Therefore choose life. Because the truth is that we choose the wretchedness of drowning all the time. We choose to drown when we withdraw from others, when we retreat into cynicism or learned helplessness, when we numb ourselves into oblivion with whatever our drug of choice might be. We choose drowning when we allow ourselves to believe the lie of our own unworthiness, and when we simply give up because we have lost faith in our power to do something, anything. Yet drowning is a perverse comfort that allows us to expect little from ourselves, and for others to expect little of us.

There is no courage in drowning. And this is a time for courage. Jesus tells the disciples to take heart. He calls Peter out of the boat, and it is an invitation to step towards what he longs for, regardless of the wind and the water. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from any link on here, I receive a small percentage of its price, which goes straight back into my own colossal biblioexpenses. Privacy policy. TLDR: You're safe — there are no nefarious "third parties" lurking on my watch or shedding crumbs of the "cookies" the rest of the internet uses.