I am in the middle of a move, with a long to-do list. So here are some thoughts on perspective, God, our place in the cosmos, seeing – from two poets.
The Beginning of Wisdom (by Denise Levertov) Proverbs 9 – 10
You have brought me so far.
I know so much. Names, verbs, images. My mind overflows, a drawer that can’t close.
Unscathed among the tortured. Ignorant parchment uninscribed, light strokes only, where a scribe tried out a pen.
I am so small, a speck of dust moving across the huge world. The world a speck of dust in the universe.
Are you holding the universe? You hold onto my smallness. How do you grasp it, how does it not slip away?
I know so little.
You have brought me so far.
You are the future (by Rainer Maria Rilke)
You are the future, the immense morning sky turning red over the prairies of eternity. You are the rooster-crow after the night of time, the dew, the early devotions, and the Daughter, the Guest, the Ancient Mother, and Death.
You are the shape that changes its own shape, that climbs out of fate, towering, that which is never shouted for, and never mourned for, and no more explored than a savage wood.
You are the meaning deepest inside things, that never reveals the secret of its owner. And how you look depends on where we are: from a boat you are shore, from the shore a boat.
You are invited to read, ponder, notice feelings/energy/inner movement, savor, journal, …
Rev. Glynden Bode, Board of Directors of FUMSDRL/Hearts on Fire, August 2021
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