Wednesday, September 19, 2012

well....was it?






Was it light?
Was it light within?
Was it light within light?
Stillness becoming alive,
Yet still?

A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.



      -theodore roethke










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1 comment:

  1. i felt a lively understandable spirit
    this morning in front of the blessed sacrament
    with the sisters

    i had forgotten all about it
    after being consumed in
    my REI shopping spree

    thanks for the reminder

    what was it that i heard this morning?
    i want to remember

    something like a cairn along the trail
    or a yellow arrow or scallop shell
    reassuring me that i am on a path
    that is leading in a worthwhile direction

    i was encouraged to press on

    something also struck my mind
    thinking back to yesterday's reading
    on the body of the christ--
    an awareness of how it could appear
    that we Protestants have said to the Catholic
    side of the body:
    "we don't need you"

    that can't be right

    that could only be said
    out of dire desperation

    perhaps now in less desperate times
    the protestant statement could be
    re-examined

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