Prophetic | Poetic Oracle
A Return to Simplicity & Beauty
February 2026
For the ones who have survived layers of trauma, religious pressure, performance identities, and survival strategies — a return to simplicity is not childish.
It is neurological healing.
It is spiritual integration.
It is ego relaxing its grip.
It is not a shrinking. It is a return to Home.
A nervous system that has been through years of vigilance longs for gentle rhythms, manageable expectations, nature, spaciousness, and clarity.
It calls for air and sound and communication that feel clean in the body.
It calls for Beauty that requires nothing from you.
This is not escapism; it is regulation.
Those who are weary of arguments, strife, clamor, and noise want a Truer theology that is not voiced but embodied.
Restoring simplicity and beauty is holy work.
Beauty restores perspective.
Beauty calms the amygdala.
Beauty returns people to themselves.
Beauty interrupts despair without debate.
Nurturing and abiding in the kingdom of God within…
This is energy well directed.
It is not withdrawal from the world, it is sacred alignment.
What would it look like to operate not from urgency, but from pure and simple (single) devotion to Christ?
Fewer inputs.
Slower rhythms.
Honest creativity.
Beauty without agenda.
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up;
my eyes are not raised too high;
I do not occupy myself with things
too great and too marvelous for me.
But I have calmed and quieted my soul,
like a weaned child with its mother;
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
- Psalm 131:1-2, ESV.
A weaned child knows they are safe.
A weaned child rests because they know they are held.
Drink to your fullness.
Let simplicity and beloved-ness be your mantra.
Let Peace and Divine Beauty become your highest aspiration.
Coming Home to Truest Essence
January 2026
I've had conversations with numerous clients this week who have all been experiencing something similar: a clarion call to alignment - threshold opportunities to release personas and ways of being that conflict with their inner truth and authenticity.
We have reached a point where it's not going to work anymore if we continue trying to be something we're not, carrying out a function that's in stark contradiction to our sacred essence and gifting.
So here's a few questions to contemplate this week:
What do you need to acknowledge about yourself? What are you ready to embrace about yourself that you've been in resistance to for much of your life?
What aspects of yourself are you tired of trying to overcome because you think they're not enough or won't fit in? Could you lay down this resistance and accept yourself, your traits, with love?
Instead of shaming yourself for what you most enjoy and want, what would it look like to celebrate your uniqueness and heart's desires?
What healthy blessings would you choose for yourself if you anything was possible?
These answers are clues for the direction for your life.
Getting 100% honest with oneself can be a challenge if most of one's life has been lived behind a mask or a costume for the sake of external approval, even survival.
As you get in touch with the truest parts of you this week, I want to encourage you to throw a quiet but intentional welcome home party. Throw open your loving arms to the beauty of your soul and a make private vow to never forsake yourself again.
This poem from LoveSong - Poems of Connection was written at a time when the trauma in my life had become so intense, I could no longer "find" my inner child. I had spent too many years treading on eggshells taking care of everyone else’s needs that I barely new who I was anymore.
But then, by a miracle, she—me as a little girl—appeared to me in a vision. Immediately after, I wrote these words to describe what I saw; and it set me on a course of persona freedom.
I share this with you, because the innocence and simplicity of who we really are and what we really want can lost or buried under the layers of life's journey.
But we're always there, beneath all the pain, waiting for our own return; waiting for our soul to remember and offer welcome.
MY LITTLE GIRL
Today I met a little girl
So innocent and true
I knew by revelation
That this day was overdue
Her smile was kind and radiant
Her speech like morning dew
Her hair resembled fine-spun gold
Her eyes were radiant blue
I asked the girl, “How old are you?”
“No matter,” she replied
Except I learned her birthday
Like mine, is in July
I asked her what she loved to do
The things that made her smile
I asked about her secret dreams
That made her heart run wild
The little girl stopped very still
And sighed the sweetest sigh
She took a small step closer
Looked me in the eye and giggled
“Daisy chains and buttercups
Meadows in the spring
Daffodils and butterflies
Birds upon the wing
Living in the music
Dancing with my heart
Words, and thoughts, and feelings
Creating works of art
The moon, the stars, the summer breeze
Nature’s richest pleasures
Trees, and flowers, and animals
Historic antique treasures
Cobbled streets and chocolate treats
Cozy, crackling fires
Holding hands and kisses
Chances to inspire!”
The little girl was far from done
She had so much to share
With passionate enthusiasm
Genuine and rare
She skipped and twirled
Her words were pearls of wisdom past her age
As though she had a destiny
Of purpose to engage
She smoothed her frock and fluffed her hair
Her warmth felt like the sun
Melting years of trauma
That had left me dead and numb
My eyes began to sparkle
No longer was I tired
This meeting was no accident
Some magic had transpired
For long ago I knew a little girl
Who loved to dance
But life had dealt her many blows
And painful circumstance
I’d searched for her so many times
In anguish, cried her name
Her sweet and trusting presence
Had been buried under pain
But suddenly she had returned
As if the time was right
The dawning of redemption
To chase away the night
I reached my hand to touch her face
To know her tender essence
And found my hand upon my heart
Bathed in holy presence
I could not see the little girl
It seemed she’d disappeared
Even though the echo
Of her laughter was still here
Then at last I realized
My search was at its end
The purpose of this meeting
Now to comprehend
The little girl restored again
My lost identity
In meeting her, I found myself
For the little girl was me
It's important to honor all of the stages of a spiritual awakening journey.
This poem speaks of the stage we might call 'THE VOID.' It's a stage in which we heal, clear old patterns, transform, release baggage, and become a "new person" - much like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. It can feel like a cocooning stage and which we might feel tired a lot, maybe "stuck," and unable to muster enthusiasm for things that once captured our attention.
We might feel like we're in an in-between wilderness, a no man's land with all doors closed. The key in this stage is to not resist it but to allow it to work its dynamic work as roots grow deep into a new sense of Being. "Enjoy the spaciousness of your uncertainty. Time won’t always feel this way."
We can regard this as both a consolation that the season will eventually bridge into another and also as a reminder to make the most of the void season while it lasts. And it will last as long as it will last. May we fully receive the gifts that it offers.
FIELDS OF HOPE
Enjoy the spaciousness of your uncertainty.
Time won’t always feel this way -
fields of hope for wonder and play,
no edges or walls to prevent exploration.
Breathe the questions beneath every moment
opening the places of soul unresolved,
shadow games with fractured constructs,
lifeline illusions frayed and worn.
Sit with the morning, fresh with secrets
whispered shyly in pale sun’s dawn,
coded messages drawn from the ancients
mapping a path natural eyes cannot grasp.
Claim your being in times of empty.
Trace the shape of your authentic personhood
over and over until you know it,
ne'er to forsake its shape again.
When doors of restlessness gently close,
you'll build with treasures gleaned in darkness,
wisdom tools from lifetimes unfinished,
rites of passage paved with gold.
©Michele Francesca Cohen
from Sacred Soul Awakening - Spring 2026
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