The shepherd
calls their own sheep by name
and leads them out….
The sheep follow the shepherd
because they know that voice.
—John 10. 3, 4
There is no sound.
It’s not a word.
It’s the name rain has for earth,
the name a mother has
for the child inside her
before it is born.
It is the name you become,
the voice that speaks you into being,
spoken only as the tongue
speaks flavor to the mind,
as a spring speaks the river.
A name that is not spoken in love,
a voice that knows an algorithm
but not your soul,
you safely ignore.
You listen for the voice that knows you,
that wakens you into life;
and that voice you follow,
like roots for water,
like leaves to sun.
You follow
so that life, deep and flourishing,
is yours.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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