Welcome home. I'm Dr. Tama, a minister, licensed psychologist and sacred artist. And this

is Homecoming, a podcast to facilitate your journey home to yourself. While I will provide

weekly inspiration and mental health tips, this podcast is not the same as personalized therapy.

I'm so excited you're on the journey. If you want to request specific topics or to submit a

poem for me to read on the podcast, email me at homecomingpodcastsatgmail.com. Also to build our

community, don't forget to like, subscribe and share. Let's begin. Welcome home co-journers.

I'm glad you're here for another episode and I'm excited to share our poem for this week.

This piece is from Elita Kahlo Gindo and it's called I Found Love Within. I hear a call,

a call asking me to come back home. It refuses to be ignored, ringing over the snowy mountain tops,

crossing the deep blue oceans. As I pick up the phone with weary short breaths and a rapid

beating heart, I remind myself that I am the caller and receiver of what's within.

I am the messenger of love, so I answer the call with ease. I move under the warm sun,

feeling my heart's roots melt into the earth underneath. My heart slowly opens to the sky,

singing alongside the hummingbirds. My ears open to the gates of heaven as my eyes begin to rest.

They are greeted by warm hues of yellow daisies and orange wildflowers. At this very moment,

I feel it all, rest, love, and the joy I've been searching for. I love my heart now

in a way that I didn't know I could exist, in a way that I didn't know could exist.

Yes, Elita, thank you so much for your beautiful poem. Finding a love within it is so thoughtful and

paints that picture for us of the anxiety, the nervousness that many people talk about when they

begin this homecoming journey and then happen to remind ourselves that this is the journey back to us.

And so we can breathe and receive, right? Breathe and receive. It is such an important gift, and so thank

you for your poem. And for those who are listening, you can feel free to share your poems at homecoming

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