Metamorphosis

Lord

 There is a big devil called

Discouragement

We ask you to send him way because he is bothering us

                                                Haitian prayer (quoted in Perseverance by Margaret J Wheatley)

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up and down

down and up

so we go

sometimes high and happy, soaring with the eagles over the mountains

sometimes low and crawling, inching our way through rotting slime

we can go from thankfulness to resentment in a  nanosecond

we can go from feeling pretty darned pleased with ourselves

to feeling like the lowest worm in worst garbage heap in the universe

all because

well, frankly because we are human

and sometimes we do great things

and sometimes we slip back into patterns and behaviors we thought we had left behind

yet it is the same person who soars

as crawls

and the same Sacred presence that animates

and the same Sacred love that fills

in each moment

The Sacred is always the same

we are always the same

the only thing that really changes is

the way we think and feel

and that is all us

that is all in our head

some mornings

I just have to shake my head

Vigorously

And make silly noises with my mouth

And dance? around my living room

Until I return to myself

and am ready to start my day!

How God must laugh

And clap hands with delight

at my antics

my

sacred dance of

metamorphosis