Be Still and Cool

Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit from thy own thoughts and then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind… thou wilt receive his strength and power from whence life comes to allay all tempests, against blusterings and storms.  That it is which molds up into patience, into innocency, into soberness, into stillness, into stayedness, into quietness, into God and God’s power.

                                                                                                                                George Fox

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warm wetness surrounds me

for the moment it is spring

and celebrations about

long silent birds appear

magically

singing a song of spring

searching the warm earth

for food

the brown grass contemplates

wondering if it is time yet

for greenness

the trees mindfully and quietly

awaken from their long sleep

through this misty world I walk

and am fed by this quiet coolness

finding stillness of soul

finding “stayedness”

secure

in Sacred love