Lent -27 Live Fully

 

One life on this earth is all that we get,

whether it is enough or not enough,

and the obvious conclusion would seem to be

that at the very least we are fools

if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

Frederick Buechner - from The Hungering Dark

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slightly the light

chases the darkness

trees

vague stanchions 

reach

into the endless gray

the great owl swoops

the rests

eyes peering down on this

interloper 

who dares walk his misted domain

mist swirls

and the smell of needles

wet rises

the smell of life

the owl spreads great wings

and glides silently into

the dark

swooping then rising

so too the sun

so too my heart