The Sunday Poet: Linda Maria Steele

 

 

Linda Maria Steele is a teacher, writer and visual artist. She is the author of Meet Me in My Cape Cod Kitchen She has three children. She originally wrote 'tending a tender heart' for one of her daughter's after her daughter called while on a trip to California. You can see more of her work at www.lindamariasteele.com

 

 

Tending a Tender Heart 

In the end all we can really do is make a way for ourselves inside of ourselves.

We can wish and hope and pray things will turn out a certain way. And yet, all we have are the birds that call to us at dawn, the glimmer of light we notice at water's edge or the admiration we feel toward the rising moon.

If we're patient enough and remember to love our heart with our own tender hearts, that may be just enough to take us all the way home.