Lighten Up!

I think most of the spiritual life is really a matter of relaxing — letting go, ceasing to cling, ceasing to insist on our own way, ceasing to tense ourselves up for this or against that.

                                                                Beatrice Bruteau

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I walk in the almost darkness

the way is clear but

vague

in the early light

a distant honker

the hoot of an owl

the crunch of gravel beneath my feet

the only sounds

in the pregnant stillness

and the day seeks birth

“today” I vow

I am going strive to be

a true child of the sacred

today I will listen

and care

today……

and through the silence the sacred spoke

“lighten up

today just

yourself

try it!

You’ll like it…”