When living in the real world is hard work,
when its needs come begging and its wounds cry out,
contemplation may seem like an escape.
But it’s the way we breathe-in the whole world
so we become greater than it is, and contain it;
and breathe in God until we are wholly contained.
It’s how we let God hold our fears and our wishes,
and enter the world, even its pain,
with infinite grace.
It’s the bee crawling into the lily, way deep,
the cypress roots working their way down,
the still moment before the athlete runs for the high bar.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net
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