Lifted Up from No

thank You God for most this amazing

day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth

day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any–lifted from the no

of all nothing–human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings

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It is time

to put down the cell phone

turn off the TV

walk away from the computer

it is time to become un-entombed

to walk out

into sun

or rain

or snow

to feel the wind against one’s face

the warmth of the sun

to open one’s eyes and see

really see

the world outside the door

to open one’s ears

and hear the owl, the woodpecker

the wind in the firs

it matters not whether it is the beauty

of mountain and stream

or the odd beauty of a cityscape

it is all God’s

yes

and as we stand

and look

and listen

we are lifted from

no

and find

again

the unimaginable

You