The latest scam is those emails
seemingly from a familiar friend
inviting you to some unnamed event.
If you’re tempted to open them
it may be because you’ve denied yourself
all the invitations the world sends.
Nothing happens encased in itself;
everything, every object, every moment,
offers itself, invites us to enter it.
The flower says, “Smell me! Gaze a while”
The door whispers, “Open me. Come look.”
The path says, “Want to see something?”
Every passing stranger cries, “Want to hear a story?”
The moment of silence says nothing,
but raises its eyebrows as if to say, “Come, deep…”
The offer is always there
to pass through the portal,
open ourselves to the invitation
where something in us is asked out—
that unexpected encounter,
that inevitable grace.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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