LABOR & DELIVERY

 

When my mother labored,

and I was delivered

Daddy’s and husbands

were not allowed near.

Mom’s themselves,

flat on their backs,

were not present but drugged.

Babies arrived asleep,

“under the influence”.

One generation later,

when I had my babies,

moving around encouraged,

midwives working with doctors.

Pain meds available

but not pushed, not taken.

Baby’s Daddy’s and friends

present and involved.

Babies, once again

delivered to wide awake love.

Now each of us is

birthing our post 2012 world,

deep in those labor pains.

The world is not going away

in 2012.

But right now you

are determining what

that new world

will be like for you.

Are you laboring

flat on your back,

listening to instructions

from someone else?

Are you accepting the anesthesia

that the economic powers

offer you minute by minute?

Another credit care application.

And you’re already approved!!

Buy more.

Have more.

Show off more,

but don’t think.

Or are you in labor,

breathing with the pain,

grateful for each respite?

Lining your bed side

with friends and family and guides

who truly support you.

Are you using

meditation,

a walk in the sun,

a funny movie,

coffee with friend

for your pain meds?

We are all laboring.

And we will deliver.

I want my new life

to be delivered to

wide awake love and joy.

Not to mention deep peace.

Lizette Estelle Stiehr

April 6, 2011

YOU CHOOSE

 A mother stands,

pudgy fingers

framing her face.

“ook at me, mama”

“ook at me,

full attention demanded.

Christ stands

arms outstretched.

Each of us choosing

how much of his attention

we think we deserve.

The Creator stands

arms behind Her back.

A humble servant,

loyal to our peace and joy,

and equally loyal to our

judgement and fear.

moving only to create

upon our request.

What do YOU choose?

Lizette Estelle Stiehr

November 29, 2009

Note:  This is a poem from my book 2012 to Oneness.  You can order them from Amazon or from me at lizette.stiehr@gmail.com  Fantastic Christmas presents for feeding anyone's soul.  

2012 is Coming!

2012 is coming!

Apocalypse?

Remember 2000?

Y2-K, the millennium,

when all the

worlds computers

crashed?

Oh no

you say,

it was

hardly a blip—

maybe a hangover.

And, buried in that

“barely a blip”

unfolded a PC on every desk.

An internet coming with

   gmail

      facebook

         twitter

            IPhones

               Utube

           

Friedman’s “flat world” of

instant connections

December 21, 2012

will be barely a blip

yet can be:

   love in every cell of our bodies

      respecting differences

         compassion for self

            acceptance of ourselves and others

It can be:

   an overlapping of duality

      to the acceptance of

         we are all One.

Oneness. 

Lizette Estelle Stiehr

November 6, 2012

A New Will Pattern

Out of the old world,

we’re graduating from

the patriarchal male

will pattern that was:

“I can do whatever I want.”

And from the female will pattern of:

“I don’t know what I want, it’s OK.”

And now we can choose to step forward,

into a new androgynous  will pattern of

sacred intention: 

“Will alignment with mission.”

Ah, with my mission?

And is that filling every cell

of my body with love and peace?

Of course it is.

And is that moving into

the greatest acceptance

and compassion for myself

that I can hold?

Of course it is.

And then the work is aligning

my sacred intention within

the hours of each day,

structured by work,

by social engagements,

by family time.

Only Creator and I know if I’m

in will alighnment in each moment.

Lizette Estelle Stiehr

November 5, 2012

Meditation

 

In these amazing

resilient

complex

fragile

bodies,

We lean

out of the present

into that fun trip

coming up

or

into that

scary meeting tomorrow.

But in meditation

we lean into

ourselves,

being present.

Lizette Estelle Stiehr

April 25, 2012