Thursday 12 May 2016

Ordinary Life

 

I found this delightful poem on the lovely Calm Things blog. Check it out!



In Your Ordinary Life - Steve Garnaas-Holmes

In your ordinary life,
with its handbag of pain
and your few little coins of success,
an entire star burns with pure glory,
a field of wildflowers exults.
This is not good luck, or physics gone wild.
It’s God.

What can you do, you who are made of delight,
but fall defenselessly in love with everybody,
and give yourself away
until you are pure song?
What can you do but
shuck off your burlap clothing,
catch fire
and dance?

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