Just sit there

Just sit there right now

Don’t do a thing

Just rest

For your separation from God

Is the hardest work in this world….

                                                Rumi

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Avoiding the God takes a lot of work

You can’t do it easily

How do you avoid the God in a sunrise

Or in the light, glistening off a mountain

Newly white

On a winters day?

How do you avoid God

In a spring breeze

Scented with pine,

Or in the nudge of a dog’s nose

when it is time to rise?

how do you avoid God in

the smile of a friend

or the hug of a child?

Oh we try

We spend hours on Facebook

Get tangled up in tweets

We put our head down

And refuse to look up

We bury our lives in busyness

But still God comes

In the rising of the moon

In the laughter of coyotes

In the dancing of deer through the trees

In the pressure of a horse nose

In the small of one’s back

And catches us by

surprise