Wednesday, April 4, 2012
April 4, 2012
Preference
“…the seeing depends ever on the being…”
Thoreau in his Writer’s Journal
The ivy bends the light into green arrows
and trails itself in time from its dark roots
arrow by arrow into greener life.
A way of seeing s
hapes a way of being.
Each preference stirs a pulsing dynamo
of heart-beat, light-wave, turning each impulse
wholly toward what it is, the being, true,
communing through mysterious preferences,
unswerving as a bee hailed by its flowers,
seeming erratic, choosing and forgetting,
retracing its cross-pollinating flight,
the field of choice a providence of light.
–Ellen Murphy CSJ
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Thank you very much Baya CSJ, Louise, Carolyn Puccio CSJ, Beloved Ellen Murphy CSJ, The Rabbi, our extension to the Palestinian community, and all of the wonderful contributors who have availed yourselves to present to us reflections during this Lenten season!
During this journey hopefully we received an unction to stretch beyond our comfort zones, think critically, consciously examine, pray some or even a little more, perhaps consider the sacrament of reconciliation and or getting back into good healthy spiritual practices, consider our neighbor’s, and to taste and see a wider community and world!
From the words of Thoreau’s writers journal in today’s reflection….’The Seeing is in the being’,
R. It makes perfect sense that we work on our beings……. seeking first ___________ then all of these things shall be added unto us, perhaps even greater vision, and grace (Amazing ability) to do the extraordinary !
Peace, Shalom
Vaya con Dio todo el Mundo!