Month: August 2024

It’s Not Going To Happen and, It Is Happening

Today, I sat to write a poem for my weekly post. It is not happening. My brain is tired. I have run out of words to edify, describe, inspire.

For the past two months, I have been preparing for two sermons that I will be offering at Common Ground Community UMC , our local worship community. Tomorrow, Sumday the 18th, at 9:30 Central Time is the first. The two part series is on suffering, transformation, and compassion. The seocnd part is Sunday the 25th.

If you are interested, I will post a link to their archives and you can pick it up later. This post may be arriving too late for the livestream but it is here.

https://commongroundumc.org

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”

–Ben Okri

“Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.”

–Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

–Dalai Lama

A Moment

A moment,
a pause, 
reflected,
refracted.
The world
in cadence,
in syncopation.
And I,
in this moment,
find peace.

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”

-Mother Teresa

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

-Edith Wharton

“Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.”

-Sarah Ban Breathnach

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Summer Days

Today’s Harvest

In these high summer days,
light shines on life before me,
enters my body, to heal 
and transform. Light rules 
and tickles my senses. 
Basil is ready to harvest
for pesto. A deep red 
cherry tomato catches my eye
then pops in my mouth.
Darkness is late in coming.
Sunset arrives to say, rest.
Tomorrow, I will rise again,
into the light.

“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.”

-Toni Morrison

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

-Og Mandino

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”

-C. Day Lewis

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