{"id":336,"date":"2011-04-20T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thequeenofmyself\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-04-18T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:50:10","slug":"the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thequeenofmyself\/2011\/04\/the-journey.html","title":{"rendered":"The Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Journey<br \/>\nBy <a href=\"www.maryoliver.net\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Oliver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day you finally knew<br \/>\nwhat you had to do, and began,<br \/>\nthough the voices around you<br \/>\nkept shouting<br \/>\ntheir bad advice \u2014<br \/>\nthough the whole house<br \/>\nbegan to tremble<br \/>\nand you felt the old tug<br \/>\nat your ankles.<br \/>\n&#8220;Mend my life!&#8221;<br \/>\neach voice cried.<br \/>\nBut you didn&#8217;t stop.<br \/>\nYou knew what you had to do,<br \/>\nthough the wind pried with its stiff fingers<br \/>\nat the very foundations,<br \/>\nthough their melancholy<br \/>\nwas terrible.<br \/>\nIt was already late<br \/>\nenough, and a wild night,<br \/>\nand the road full of fallen<br \/>\nbranches and stones.<br \/>\nBut little by little,<br \/>\nas you left their voices behind,<br \/>\nthe stars began to burn<br \/>\nthrough the sheets of clouds,<br \/>\nand there was a new voice<br \/>\nwhich you slowly<br \/>\nrecognized as your own,<br \/>\nthat kept you company<br \/>\nas your strode deeper and deeper<br \/>\ninto the world,<br \/>\ndetermined to do<br \/>\nthe only thing you could do \u2014<br \/>\ndetermined to save<br \/>\nthe only life you could save.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Please send me your thoughts about power. Also stories of your own empowerment. When shared, these ideas and examples are extremely inspiring to others. Thanks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\nThe Queen welcomes questions concerning all issues of interest to women in their mature years. Send your inquiries to <a href=\"thequeenofmyself@aol.com\" target=\"_blank\">thequeenofmyself@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donnahenes.net\/queen\/consult.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">CONSULT THE MIDLIFE MIDWIFE\u2122<\/a><br \/>\nQueen Mama Donna offers upbeat, practical and ceremonial guidance for individual women and groups who want to enjoy the fruits of an enriching, influential, purposeful, passionate, and powerful maturity.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.donnahenes.net\/queen\/consult.shtml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Journey By Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice \u2014 though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. &#8220;Mend my life!&#8221; each voice cried. 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