HEART and be HEARTED

This is pinned above my desk at Hospice of the Western Reserve’s David Simpson Hospice House where I work with angels and serve patients and their families.     .     .

I see it hundreds of times a week as I chart, talk on the phone, prepare for presentations

.          .          .and yet,

I’m not so sure it’s fully sunk in since I put it up there just a little over two years ago;

.            .            .and isn’t this exactly what it’s all about.          .          .

not only to LOVE.            .            .

but to be L O V E D

or  as  s h e 

framed it:

“T O    H E A R T    A N D    T O    B E    H E A R T E D.            .            .”

Can you see it?

 

.

 

Admitted.          .          .

you have to look really, really hard and maybe even longer.        .        .

Look again just ahead of the word

A     D     M     I     T     T     E     D

Do you see it now?

Squint

Squint harder, more intently

Ahhhhhhh, there it is right?

What do you see.          .          .

Here, let me make it easier for you:

PAY  ATTENTION,  C L A S S :

LOOK      BEYOND      WHAT’S      SEEN;

SEE      WHAT      CAN’T      BE      VIEWED

She purposely, intentionally asked to see me.        .        .

her husband was dying

and her request was almost insulting simple:

“Would it be alright if I could bring a heart shaped stone to honor my husband? In the Meditation Room, I saw that there is a bowl of rocks that have been placed there to remember each person that has died here at Hospice House.  I’d just like to bring in a small heart shaped rock to remember him; would that be alright?”Simple, huh?

He died over the weekend.  I never saw her or him again.

When I went into the Meditation room on Monday, I saw in the bowl of rocks a heart shaped one.          .           .

She said, “It was ‘OUR  THING'”

and now, quite simply and humbly without trumpets blaring drums beating she made it MY THING, she made it even further through this Blog, OUR THING 

The QUESTION

really is:

WILL      IT      BE      YOUR      THING ?

She told me, “It was ‘our thing’  I HEART HIM!”

I stood there Monday morning before really starting my day, my week with a heart shaped stone in my hand and the first thing that I thought was that there was one thing stronger than any shaped stone:

L            O            V            E

And so I’ll ask again:

.

DO     YOU    SEE    IT ?

Look beyond what’s seen:

white space or minuscule dot

SEE WHAT CAN’T BE VIEWED

KNOW WHAT CAN’T BE UNDERSTOOD

EXPERIENCE WHAT CAN’T BE READILY FELT

L          I          V          E

H  E  A  R  T       S OMEONE

h e a r t

a n d  

b e

H    E    A    R    T    E    D
(along   your   ways)