"Be still, and know that I am God." - Psalm 46.10
Rice in a Beggar's Bowl
Of all my thousand choices tonight
I walk into the snowy woods and wait.
Snow rests in peace
on each bough where it has fallen.
The branches are content to bow
like servants with their burdens,
as are all living things content
to wait.
I stand, hands in my pockets,
and let my life fall like snow
in the empty bowl of this meadow;
my mind becomes a slender branch.
My heart settles on the silent earth.
Attend to this moment
until it is enough.
Pastor Steve
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Thursday, February 03, 2005
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