Praise What Comes
surprising as unplanned kisses, all you haven't deserved
of days and solitude, your body's immoderate good health
that lets you work in many kinds of weather. Praise
talk with just about anyone. And quiet intervals, books
that are your food and your hunger; nightfall and walks
before sleep. Praising these for practice, perhaps
you will come at last to praise grief and the wrongs
you never intended. At the end there may be no answers
and only a few very simple questions: did I love,
finish my task in the world? Learn at least one
of the many names of God? At the intersections,
the boundaries where one life began and another
ended, the jumping-off places between fear and
possibility, at the ragged edges of pain,
did I catch the smallest glimpse of the holy?
~ Jeanne Lohmann
I will most likely be out of the blogosphere for the rest of the week, but I hope to be back by next Wednesday at the latest. In the meantime, enjoy the beauty of Spring (now that, after a brief reappearance of Mother Winter it seems to have returned). What are you sitting around here for, anyway? Go outside and play before it gets up to 100 degrees!
This is very odd ... the synchronicity of it anyway
just today I posted about having mixed feelings rising to the surface related to an old love and the wondering of how well I really ever "knew him"
reading the question "did i love?" made me feel a lot better over all
Thank you
Mama Kelly
Posted by: mama kelly | April 13, 2007 at 04:42 PM