Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?
Yet not one of them will fall to the ground
apart from your Abba God.
And even the hairs of your head are all counted.
So do not be afraid;
you are of more value than many sparrows.
—Matthew 10.29-31
They do fall.
But into the hands of God,
out of the sky that is God.
You will suffer.
But your sorrow is God,
divine consciousness,
mindful in you,
the love that has tended
every grain of your being,
every verb of your story.
Your pain is God,
divine vulnerability
alive in you.
That you are not a rock.
That you can fall
is God having woven divine light
into a body,
that you can drink the nectar of this world
and be filled,
that you can love at great cost.
Like God, who is also a sparrow,
unnoticed, in the open field.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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