So the Sacred Comes

“There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.”

― Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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The porch is warm

spring sun filtering through the firs

dappled across the bright green of the lawn

the mountain

shaking the snow from her shoulders

sits grandly

looming over the valley

a couple of does pick their way through the

junipers across the fence

and quail dart through the grass

as killdeer sing

somewhere

and so

gently without effort

without a prayer

or a word

my heart is filled

the Sacred is like that

it

just

comes