Monday, October 15, 2012

Song of the Builders

What sustains our hope for the world? Especially the world just next door. What sustains us so that we regularly get renewed in hope and love and energy?

Over time, awareness shows us what feeds us and what doesn't. And Wisdom is always near to turn us toward to the good stuff, the energizing stuff.

It's Monday. Eat. Otherwise the journey will be too much for us.



Song of the Builders
-Mary Oliver

On a summer morning
I sat down
on a hillside
to think about God -


a worthy pastime.
Near me, I saw
a single cricket;
it was moving the grains of the hillside


this way and that way.
How great was its energy,
how humble its effort.
Let us hope


it will always be like this,
each of us going on
in our inexplicable ways
building the universe.