Like a Hungry Beggar

Refuse to fall down.

If you cannot refuse to fall down,refuse to stay down.

If you cannot refuse to stay down

lift your heart toward heaven

and like a hungry beggar,ask that it be filled

and it will be filled.

You may be pushed down.

You may be kept from rising,

But no one can keep you from lifting

your heart toward heaven--only you.

It is in the middle of misery that

so much becomes clear.

The one who says nothing good came of this,

is not yet listening.

~Clarissa Pinkola Estes~