Trusting and Sometimes Forgetting

By Mary Spring, ICPPD graduate, tutor, IACP-accredited counsellor/psychotherapist, and IACP-accredited supervisor

Meeting the other.
Being surprised by
meeting myself in the other.
Trusting and sometimes forgetting
to rest in what I cannot see.
Trusting and sometimes forgetting
to allow for mystery that is inherent in a process

where two hearts meet
the listened to and the listening heart.
Trusting and sometimes forgetting
to rest in the dynamics of resistance
and the gentle, undiminishing probe
as two worlds sometimes collide
and sometimes collude
and where
goodness, beauty, courage
and worthiness
come out from the shadows
in what is, perhaps,
a sacred encounter.
In the midst of all of this

I sometimes trust and sometimes I forget to trust.