Loving Kindness Meditation with poem "Sea Glass"

Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker

Breathe in and out peace and love as you listen to this loving kindness meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "Sea Glass", by James Crews.

"Sea Glass", by James Crews.

We keep going back to the rocky beach,

searching for the glint of sea glass--

the white, the green, the rarest blue.

It takes decades to smooth out the sharp

edges of those shards, yeas of helpless

turning in the tides, so we might then

reach down, slip one into our pocket

and run fingers over the worn surface

when worry takes over a quiet mind.

We too have been tumbled by the waves

of life, and with each passing year, I feel

my own edges buffed and polished so I

might slide more easily through the hours,

stop resisting the pull of whatever ocean

I'm in. Once, I wanted to be the shimmering

bottle, container to hold the whole world

impossibly inside myself, but now I just want

to be the piece of beauty you come upon

in an otherwise calm moment, cradled

by the endless sea crashing at your feet.

--James Crews, from Unlocking the Heart

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