The Spiritual life

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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the morning stretches before me

already

I am behind

I got up an hour late

I feed the horses an hour late

I wandered around the pasture in my pajamas setting sprinklers

I read the comics

I sipped at my coffee

I have not worked on my sermon

I have not finalized my talk for the “World Day of Peace”

I have not opened my work email

I have not even fixed myself breakfast

I am just sitting here

sipping coffee

watching patches of morning sun creep through the trees

watching the birds ravage my feeders

how very spiritual

of

me