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Don’t be half-hearted about this –
You know all about clay –be clay.Humble, submissive, reverent –awaiting the Potter’s hands.Enjoy that humility, that surrender –feel already so near God.Now the wheel begins to turn –the Potter is here!Feel His hands – the more you feel them,the more you know the love in them.Now you’re being shaped:turned on the wheel like a dervish…
On the cover
in those old dark churchesyou can just about read‘Hymns Ancient and Modern’As time goes by,‘ancient’ gets a longer and longer historyand curiously so toodoes ‘modern’
Consider for a while,
garnered seeds at rightful time –deeds as seeds –surrendered to the wisdom of the earthwhich contains the wisdomof all other elements:surrendered to the faith in nature,hope of harvest;in the meantime, nought to dobut pray and praise and cultivatethat inner earth; carefor next year’s seeding field;repair the fences of discrimination; trimthe hedges, spinneys, copses,where free nature…
‘Stillness is my beloved teacher.
I said to Stillness,How can you teach me so well?Stillness said,By being with you always.I said to Stillness,How can you teach me so much?Stillness said,Because you have much within you;I, but a mirror for your mind;I, but a mirror for your heart.I said to Stillness,O my beloved teacher, will youpromise me you will never leave…
“People say
but I’m starting to think thateveryone’s pretty much a mess.We go through break-upsin order to give ustime to breathe andrecover enough to deal withanother person’s bucket of shit.”*[unashamedly stolen from a blog..]
As the cool dawn brings the light
meets the sand that time and man have brought,and you wake the camel boyto lead the camels from the waterside –before you mount the lurching beastand sway off into the desert on your path,the camel-bells tinkling on the harness,look into the camel’s eyes.There you will see mingled,pride in its being; patience in its duty.The wise…