{"id":368,"date":"2010-08-18T22:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeanetteleblanc.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2015-06-20T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T01:06:28","slug":"breath-life-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeanetteleblanc.com\/breath-life-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"breath. life. hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

{this life right now, it leaves me little time to do more than scrawl illegible lines in my journal, or fragments of thoughts on grocery receipts.\u00a0 there are words branding the deepest reaches of my soul – but this is a time for diving,\u00a0 not for surfacing.\u00a0 and so, i find myself reaching to the past.\u00a0 to stories already released and truths already recorded.\u00a0 and I absorb them anew, and remember things I’ve already learned }<\/strong><\/p>\n

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breath. life. hope<\/strong> 12.23.07<\/p>\n

there is much to
\nlearn
\nand so far to go<\/p>\n

and so I am steping
\nboldly
\ninto this new life<\/p>\n

boldy, yes
\nbut not without fear
\nand certianly not
\nwithout grief<\/p>\n

and there is pain<\/p>\n

yes, there is pain
\nand there are days
\nwhen I am consumed by loss
\nand I want to pull the covers
\nof life
\naround my head
\nand sit in darkness
\nwith my demons
\ninstead of trying to escape
\nthe knowledge
\nof what precious life
\nI have relenquished
\nto the wild ether<\/p>\n

but there is hope
\nthere must always be
\nhope
\nand there are days
\nwhen I spiral on hope
\nspiral to infinity and back again
\nwith my breath
\nor her touch
\nor your words
\nor the sound of the raindrops hitting my window
\nas if life just goes on
\nor because life just goes on<\/p>\n

And so I take a breath
\nand I breathe again
\nand again and again
\nfilling my lungs and heart and soul
\nwith hope
\nbecause my life depends on it<\/p>\n

because the center
\nof life,
\nmine and yours,
\nis always breath<\/p>\n

and each day I choose
\nto unwrap my battered
\nheart
\none more time
\nand one more time again
\nand to hold it out
\npalms upturned
\nand I make a fragile offering
\nof my heart to the world.<\/p>\n

and so I stand
\nas naked as I have ever
\nbeen
\nwith my breath
\nand my heart
\nand my grief
\nand my loss
\nand my fear
\nand my pain
\nand my hope<\/p>\n

and with myself<\/p>\n

with so much less
\nbut possibly so much more
\nthan before<\/p>\n

and I remind myself to take
\njust one step
\nand to breathe just one breath<\/p>\n

and I think that maybe
\njust maybe<\/p>\n

I can do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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