Sail Away Sweet Sister

This is all about God, prayer, community, music, art, poetry, theology, love and all sorts of things people run into on their life journey, especially when the second half of life is looming ahead. It is inspired by Fr Richard Rohr, by the Contemplative Outreach of Fr Thomas Keating, by C.G. Jung, by C.S. Lewis, Alan Watts, St Beuno's retreat house and all the communities I have a privilege to belong to. It is dedicated to and I hope will be used by my nearest and dearest, scattered all over the planet, and who are falling upwards with me.

Thursday, 26 July 2012

Everguide

Here is a poem written for a person who has given me much time and wisdom, on the event of her departure:


Gently

You took me backwards

To lead me forward



And treading in the footprints you made

I looked down with surprise

To find they were mine -

That I had been this way before,

With eyes open but blindfolded

Against the real



Now the mystery, defused, broken down,

Become seedbed,

Births endlessly



In endings are beginnings

In the leaving

The new earth, untrod,

Contains potency:

Both you and I, unhaltered, go together

In separate shared experience



(Richard W.,  July 2012)
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  1. lizz30 July 2012 at 15:55

    this is a (literally) wonder-full poem, bless you

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