Morning Meditation ~ Earth Week

 

One of my favorite authors is John O’Donohue.  I encourage you to read slowly this poem, prayer of his:

 

FOR A NEW BEGINNING

 

In out-of-the-way places of the heart,

Where your thoughts never think to wander,

This beginning has been quietly forming,

Waiting until you were ready to emerge.

 

For a long time it has watched your desire,

Feeling the emptiness growing inside you,

Noticing how you willed yourself on,

Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.

 

It watched you play with the seduction of safety

And the gray promises that sameness whispered,

Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent,

Wondered would you always live like this.

 

Then the delight, when your courage kindled,

And out you stepped onto new ground,

Your eyes young again with energy and dream,

A path of plenitude opening before you.

 

Though your destination is not yet clear

You can trust the promise of this opening;

Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning

That is at one with your life's desire.

 

Awaken your spirit to adventure;

Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk;

Soon you will home in a new rhythm,

For your soul senses the world that awaits you.

 

May the Easter-ing promise that prods you to risk going to the tomb stir within you.  May you find courage to reach for the spices that sit with layers of dust in the cupboard of your soul (like trying to write your own poem or explore a new relationship or try a different way of being in the world right now).  May you continue to trust that the unknowingness is part of the holy foolishness of Easter.  We celebrate that as an Easter people, we know that we do not know.  May God show up disguised as your life when you stumble, fumble, and fall splat on your face.  May You open your soul’s senses to a world that risks time and time and time again telling us a holy mystery of life.  Amen.