Be the Noise

“There is a community of the spirit.

Join it, and feel the delight

of and being the noise.

Drink all your passion,

and be a disgrace.

Close both eyes

to see with the other eye”

― Rumi

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I belong

To the community of those who live in their heads

we think we think we think

and heads are full

of past and present

of philosophers and so called theologians

we ponder

we ruminate

we stand in a room full of people

and are standing somewhere behind our own eyes

observing

thinking

judging (mostly ourselves)

seeing if we measure up

analyzing our place in the room

or if we even have a place in the room

we see people connecting

talking

laughing

and decide

all too often, that we don’t belong

we are not “in”

its an odd place

that often creates and becomes its own reality

Lord help us to live

to be in the room

on the street

to be the noise

to drink in the gifts of conversation

and acceptance that come our way

with passion

help us to close our eyes

and see with the other eye

the eye of the Spirit

of your love

and know that in that moment

that place

with those people

we are exactly where we were meant to be