The weariness of this world
is not the exhaustion
of having received a task too hard.
It is the despair of having worked
at the wrong thing too long,
having strained against the pull of life,
against the gravity of origin,
resisting the fire of genesis within us,
fighting the flow of God through us,
the current of becoming.
Within us groans the mother of God;
a Harriet Tubman sings and marches on,
and the more we silence them
the more thin and hollow we become.
No, instead take on the yoke
that is already being carried.
Let yourself be borne
by the river of mercy that flows,
the mighty stream that won’t be stopped,
that bears us through all sorrow and evil,
the great river of righteousness
that holds us all the way,
that empowers us to do justice,
that brings us, bathed in the waters of healing,
to the place of peace.
Allow the Spirit to do the work.
Receive the gift,
and let it take you into the world.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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