Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Steve Garnaas-Holmes 

Unfolding Light

Dearly Beloved,
Grace and Peace to you.

I want to say the oak is patient 
unfolding its little parasols of leaves 
so gradually 
even as the birches rush ahead, 
but it is not patient, 
any more than light is patient 
taking 100,000 years 
to cross the Milky Way. 
It is simply in the present moment. 
It is I, 
who think of schedules, 
who think in this spring chill 
of shade on a hot day, 
who must be patient, 
who must surrender 
thought of slow or fast, 
who must 
without thought of elsewhere or elsewhen 
be at peace in this moment 
and receive without judgment 
what is. 

Deep Blessings,
Steve

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Steve Garnaas-Holmes  
Unfolding Light  
www.unfoldinglight.net