I am you and you are me - A love letter to myself

The following letter was an exercise I was given to write a love letter to myself. It's a wonderful thing to do for yourself. A dear friend of mine celebrates the Winter Solstice by inviting friends to circle with her and write something special about yourself that you would like to be reminded of. Then, on the Spring Equinox, she mails it back to you. We so often overlook sharing kindness with our own person. Take a few moments and say or write something beautiful just for you!

My dearest friend,

I am so grateful for your friendship. Having you in my life has brought me great joy – an awakening to a broader spectrum of the true and deepest joys of this physical journey. You have become a light within my heart.

In fact, I believe that within the first moment of knowing you, my heart was truly lightened. Is this the greater meaning of enlightenment?

You are a gift to me. Your smile and laughter are like a burst of sunshine on fresh fallen snow within my being. You are a true joy to me. Within your smile and your light I see the eternal forest of magic and mystery. I see the newborn fawn, and the fallen hawk. I see the mighty thunder clouds and the dewdrop on spring’s first awakening.

The depth of your heart and your being allow me to dive in with that much more of myself. In you I find a sacred cave, an endless well of primordial grace, deep and divine, as that of the Earth Mother herself.

To walk with you is a symphony of love, joy, self-respect and communion with all of life. Through your being I am reflected back to myself as the beauty of God’s divine intellect.

In the quiet and the noise, in the stillness and the dance, I know you. I feel you. I am you, and you are me.

In this, I know that you see me too. And from this vision of the oneness shared, I trust you. I find peace here … the deep and gentle knowingness that I, too, am joy. A child of God, born of divinity, on a sacred journey of experience.

I am blessed to share this journey with you.