Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker

Simple Loving Kindness Meditation
I never was an ocean child —traveling each summer to the mountainson vacationsbecame homeat a young age
that familiar mass of solid rockimmovable, unshakeablestable and strongsteady and mostly unchangingthe way I longed for life to be
the way I longed for life to bewhen loss came too soonholding the grief of my 15 year- old heart,showing methe fragility and preciousness of lifeare inescapably one.
But the oceanis wildis moving, ever-changingwith its waves dancing, crestingfalling, recedingrising and crashingin a cacophony of soundand furyunashamed.
And strange, that in this uncertaintyin this troubled and challenging timeI long for the ocean.
I long for my fear and sadnessto be held in these waters,tears finding their home in the salt of this earthlytreasure.
Take me to the shore of this vast expansewhere I can watch the intensity of the waves —the fear, the grief, the sorrowthe fierce love, the kindnessof all kindred spirits
Where from this vantage pointno wave is aloneno wave disappearsnothing solid,but Interconnected.Part of the wholewhere all of humanity is held.