Awake my soul

You can search far and in hungry places for love.  It is a great consolation to know that there is a wellspring of love within yourself.  If you trust that this wellspring is there, you will then be able to invite it to awaken

                                                John O’Donohue, Anam Cara, p. 28

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I am surrounded by smoke and fire

the forests burn

and the earth

parched

turns its cracked face to a red sun

plants wither and die

in this dry and weary land

O for a wellspring water

welling up

unquenchable

to nourish the earth

and satisfy the desperate thirst

O Sacred one

water the dry earth

and water too

my parched soul

with a river of living water

with Sacred life

awake my soul

drink in

Sacred love

and be

content