Mary
Oliver’s lines, shown
below have sat with me in another way this month…
“Instructions
for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
I
have been living in a place that I find odd for me. Walls all around, sound of
the City, and just a peek of nature, the towering Mother Mountains edges. I
KNOW that living in a wild place feeds me the best that this Home has to offer.
I wondered how I would live my stillness into this space. I had to conjure the knowledge
that Obs is no different from Kommetjie. She is One with the all that exists in
all the magnificence. It has been easy to see that…
And
in that I saw light beings walking the pavements. Those huddled in the corner,
years of drinking and poverty clothing their shiny cloaks. And evidence in the
form of a man that stood beside me in a bottle store. I think that he must have
the entire store in his body, unwashed and spending what he had on pro longing
what I judged to be oblivion. And there, he took his last few cents and put
them into an animal welfare tin, muttering “This is for you”. I turned to him
and thanked him for making me see this tin, and for prompting me to add to it.
Our faces lit up, both us seeing each other in a brief instant of recognition
of who we are, WE ARE.
Yeshua,
in rags, gave alms to the animals. And I will never forget meeting him…
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