Something Divine Happens

Children can easily open the drawer

That lets the spirit rise up and wear

Its favorite costume of

Mirth and laughter

When the mind is consumed with

Remembrance of

The Sacred

Something divine happens to the

Heart

That

Shapes the hand and tongue

And eye into

The word

Love

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ah the children

calves and foals

kittens and puppies

the tiny quail that scurry after their mother

spinning

dancing

playing

cavorting

joy unbound

mirth released

ah the child

that little guy

who free from the grasp of his mother

speeds up the aisle to the front of the sanctuary

where he plops

cookie in hand

grins

and nibbles at the foot of the cross

we are the children of God

called to be childlike (not childish)

called to lay down

our old souls and become young again

in the presence

of the Sacred mother/father