Wake up, my soul.
I don't know where you are,
where you're hiding,
but wake up, please,
we're still together,
the road is still before us,
a bright strip of dawn
will be our star.
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Somehow, I must sit to listen. Standing implies a readiness for action, for the executing of the will. To hear You I must sit down and calm down.
The magpie mind chatters. It doesn't know about stopping. How helpless I feel in its automatic firing, its busy babbling. It is impossible to hear You as long as I am full of sound. I turn this helpless prayer toward You. ... slowly unknowing everything, becoming dark, becoming yielding ... just sitting.
~ from BEING HOME by Gunilla Norris with thanks to Marjorie Michael