Sheila Wilkinson's Page

all we are really required to do
if we are to exist is
- to allow time to pass;
to get through the day;
so many breaths and swallows.
to be - it is enough - perhaps,
for rocks or kites or snails
- but i doubt it.
for rocks were made for skipping stones
and kites for soaring skies
and snails for
discovering little eyes
- and time cannot simply pass
- it carries us forward
even when
we think we're motionless.
and i - i want to skip
and walk on water and to be held fast
by an eager hand
and eyes th… Continue

There's an ancient legend still talked of to this day about a poor and sad young girl and a magical mirror. The story says the girl was walking along a forest path when she looked up and saw a large mirror on a tree limb, held in place with lovely flowered vines...

As she gazed into this mirror, her first thought was that it must be a window and that she must be looking at someone else. But then she moved her feet and her arms and she even stuck out her tongue but the image moved with her perfe… Continue

I believe that the company you keep keeps you..
.Just like we build a spiritual house with our words - both the verbal and inner dialogues that we engage in, we also build a spiritual community with the company we keep.
If we surround ourselves with a particular type of person, they will keep us in a particular type of spiritual community. For example, we all know people who are really negative. They see everything through dirt colored glasses - not rose colored ones - because they are forever l… Continue

Good morning - another beautiful day out there. Well, I will do all in my power to make it a beautiful day despite the weather or the actions of other people or how i may physically or emotionally feel...Because it is up to me how beautiful my day is after all...
That being said, I have observed in my own life how I gravitate towards whatever is familiar--even if it's bad. I came from a home with alcoholism then I married an alcoholic (so I found out soon after I married him... After my divorce,… Continue

Words have power. They have the power to create and the power to destroy...We create with out words a great deal more than we realize. For one thing, we create the personal space we dwell in every day with our words...
The Bible says that life and death is in the power of the tongue and I believe that to be true. We may not die literally from words - but they can make us fear, cringe in embarrassment, feel ashamed, guilty, unloved...or they can make us feel strong, powerful, appreciated, loved,… Continue