friendship

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 Happy Birthday Fr. Ray!

 

A Prayer among Friends

 

Artist: Theresa Babb, public domain

A Prayer among Friends

by John Daniel

 

Among other wonders of our lives, we are alive
with one another, we walk here
in the light of this unlikely world
that isn't ours for long.
May we spend generously
the time we are given.
May we enact our responsibilities
as thoroughly as we enjoy
our pleasures. May we see with clarity,
may we seek a vision
that serves all beings, may we honor
the mystery surpassing our sight,
and may we hold in our hands
the gift of good work
and bear it forth whole, as we
were borne forth by a power we praise
to this one Earth, this homeland of all we love.

 

"A Prayer among Friends" by John Daniel, from Of Earth. © Lost Horse Press, 2012.

"No estoy yo aquí, que soy tu madre?"

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 Felíz cumpleañoas tía Soco!

You are loved

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excerpt from “A Great Wagon”

 

"One Tree Hill, Queensland Australia" by Lenny K Photography is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

excerpt from “A Great Wagon”

by Rumi (translated by Coleman Barks)

 

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

~

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.

~

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.