Keep Walking – June 29, 2021
Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.Don’t try to see through the distances.That’s not for human beings. Move within,but don’t move the way fear makes you move. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 278
So Small – June 28, 2021
I am so small I can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small,but they see enormous things. -Jelaluddin Rumi, trans. by Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, p. 279
A Certain Day – June 18, 2021
A certain day became a presence to me;there it was, confronting me — a sky, air, light:a being. And before it started to descendfrom the height of noon, it leaned over and struck my shoulder as if withthe flat of a sword, granting mehonor and a task. The day’s blowrang out metallic — or it […]
The Seedling’s Need – June 17, 2021
How shall the mighty river reach the tiny seed?See it rise silently to the sun’s yearning,sail from a winter’s cloudflake after silent flakepiling up layer upon layeruntil the thaw of springto meet the seedling’s need. Make tender, Lord, my heart:released through gentlenessThine own tremendous powerhid in the snowflake’s art. –Antoinette Adam, in Earth Prayers From […]
