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"The Heart Broken Open"

By Barbara Ford
First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR

Spirit
In these times of limitless grief
We have but two choices
Our hearts can break
Or
They can break wide open
The broken heart can fall
Clutching and desperate
Into a deep chasm of loneliness
The heart broken open
Joins with the pain
Of a million other hearts
And knows
Finally
That it is never alone

May we choose
The communion of broken hearts
Over isolation

And with that choosing
May we act together in love
Toward the healing

Of the Heart of the world

—UUA Knoxville Support Blog
Posted 7/28/08

Last updated on Tuesday, November 18, 2008.

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