Turn off the TV
and silence your phone.
Outside your window
soft rain shimmers
like a silver veil.
Listen to its serenade,
drops hitting leaves,
splashing into the birdbath.
Then attune your ears
to the silence under
this murmur and patter.
What do you hear?
The Lord of the Dance
calling to you,
ephphatha!
Be opened!
After reading Mark 7:32-34. Title from “The Winter Apple” by David Whyte. Just published in my parish newsletter, Holy Cross Community Voices.
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Mary Camille Thomas
Mary Camille Thomas is a native of Santa Cruz, California who considers herself lucky to be back after living in Davis, Germany, Los Angeles, Holland, and on the road in a motorhome. She is a librarian by profession, and her poetry has appeared in the Porter Gulch Review and Sisters Singing: Blessings, Prayers, Art, Songs and Sacred Stories by Women. She is is currently working on a novel called Schatz and a collection of poems of the spirit.
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Turn off the TV
Oh YES! A beautiful directive for a deeply lived and appreciated life. Thank you.
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You are one of my role models for a deeply lived and appreciated life!
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