The Morning Sip: Your Child Is Your Poem
While watching or thinking about your child today, take a few minutes and write
a poem. Let the poem be as short as two or three stanzas or as long as feels right. Don't plan on editing it and don't
review it while you are drafting it.
Let this poem come from somewhere deeper than your thinking mind.
Carry the poem
with you and reflect on it from time to time today. Place it where you are likey to see it or put up a reminder to
look at it. Allow the poem to remind you to breath -- to sense your child's presence, whereer they may be.
After
some time passes, share the poem with your child. If you don't live with your child, call them or e-mail them.
If you are reluctant to do so, see if you can let go of this reluctance and just go for it!
This poem comes from your heart,
not your mind. Mindful awareness of your child arises at the time of its creation, upon subsequent reflection, and
when you share the poem with your child.
Breathe even greater awareness into your life at the time you share the poem
by noticing your feelings and thoughts. Pay attention to what arises in your mind and body. Touch your chest and
feel your beating heart. Breathe. Smile.