Cageless Birds

The following is a piece that I found this year has been a tremendous encouragement to me. I thought I would write it out here for the blog in case someone were to come up to it and maybe be encouraged by it to. 

It is about being let free from your cage and flying like you are meant to. 

Cageless Birds - Melissa Helser 

Standing on the shore of decision
looking into the face of adventure
desire to abandon all I know.
What pushes me is something between
misunderstanding and knowing.
Knowing that what I want I want
to understand is not within my reach.
So I ponder my escape.

Not knowing what lies ahead.
Adventure in theory is full of excitement
and bleeds with passion for life.
But adventure in reality is full of
breathless moments, silent nights,
and wounds that leave scars of memory on a heart.

Can I go the distance?
Can I give all my mind to get what the Messenger is saying?
Can I surrender my knowing?
Will I survive the humility of ignorance to obtain a treasure that earthly gold cannot buy?
Will I ask the question of honesty even if the answer convicts my soul and sends me to the land of repentance?

All of these thoughts flood my mind.

As I stand on the shore of choosing
and in the distance of my wondering
I see with my clear eyes a flock of
wild beautiful birds
swooping clearly in my direction
as if they see me and are coming for me.
And how strange it is that their eyes are full of clarity.
And the melody of their flapping wings sings out:

We are coming for you.

My song is waking up. Wake up songbird. We want to hear your melody. Songbird wakeup and start singing. You're not in your cage anymore, bound by your shame anymore. The walls that held you in prison, the gate is flung wide open.

Start singing.