Listen to Your Soul

Even Though

Even though your heart might be broken
Even though you might lose control
Let your spirit sing like the birds' song
Listen to your soul.

When you find yourself out on a road that's too long
And you don't know which way you should go
There's a feeling inside you that's coming on strong
And it's telling you what you should know.

So,
Even though your heart might be broken
Even though you might lose control
Let your spirit sing like the birds' song
Listen to your soul.

Every time that you try to hold on to the World
There's a terrible risk that you take
You could falter and fall and you could lose it all
When you try and you build up to make it.

But,
Even though your heart might be broken
Even though you might lose control
Let your spirit sing like the birds' song
Listen to your soul.

When the people around you are telling you, "No."
And it seems to be taking too long
Just remember what started you out on this path
You are heading to where you belong.

And
Even though your heart might be broken
Even though you might lose control
Let your spirit sing like the birds' song
Listen to your soul.

These are the lyrics to a song that I composed in 2000. Like many of the songs and poems which I have written over the years, this one just sort of came pouring out of me. At the time, I had just lost my job, a job I had held for fifteen years. I had also just lost my dad to complications from Parkinson's disease. Yet this song of trust in self, trust in Life, came bubbling up out of me and I wrote it down and figured out some guitar chords to go with it. Listen to your soul.

There is a whole lot of information being published these days about our way forward and the times in which we find ourselves, notably through the internet, but there's a lot of it on the television and the radio as well. It can often come to sound like a cacophony, can often come to seem overwhelming. Which way is the way forward? How shall I proceed? And what does it all mean? What is happening in the world?

Listen to your soul.

Now, more than ever, the answers that come from within are the ones which can be trusted. I feel quite strongly about this; we each are travelling on a path to union with the divine. For each of us our path is unique and sacred. Each of us is asked to listen to the wisdom of our own knowing, to hear our soul-song as it lovingly leads us from moment to moment. Yet there is more. Each of us is asked to deeply honour the path of the Other. No matter how different their path seems from our own, each of us is asked to honour the choices and free will of each person whom we encounter as we make our way through space and time to the limitless, timeless and absolutely unspeakable presence of God.

It is not always easy to do this. Yet it is this openness, this love for each Other, that we are being asked to give. And it is this acceptance, this allowance, this honouring of the Other that allows us to travel our road in his or her company. And I've said it before, and I'll say it again here, now. Let us not let words, labels, catch phrases, get in the way of our loving, our acceptance, our embodiment of these essential attributes of the divine - unconditional love, gratitude, compassion, acceptance, appreciation, enjoyment, forgiveness, honouring.....

These are the times in which we live. We are coming into a greater awareness of what it means to be human. All that we are and all that we have ever been comes into the light now. It comes into the light to be seen, to cast a beautiful shadow of darkness, to make itself known to us, and to ask for our blessing. And as we bless ourselves with understanding and compassion, let us bless our companions in the same way. And as we love and honour ourselves, let us love and honour our companions.

Listen to your soul. Your inner truth is the voice of the divine within you. And as you listen to this voice, small, like the chattering of small winter birds, soft, like the stirring of beech leaves in a soft south wind, sweet, like the love emanating from your own sweet heart, you hear the will of the divine within you. And as you honour this voice, you step into divine will and into timeless being. And into trust. And into surrender. And into acceptance. And into love.

And your neighbour does the same. Your friend does the same. Your spouse, your child, your mother or father - all do the same.

Sometimes, it seems that our paths diverge, that one turns right while the other moves straight ahead, or shifts to the left. But I tell you this, we are all on a good road, the perfect road for us. We are all underway and making good progress and coming closer and closer to the All, the unspeakable, indefinable....