sing on
What do you cling to when the waves roll over
your little boat of life?
When the sound drains out of your days,
what still echoes long into the night?
When you cross over the river
what do you still have in your pockets—
a key to something broken, foreign coins,
a medal on a ribbon, inscribed with silence?
What does it profit you— this world,
its flash and sparkle, to weigh yourself
with its precious coals,
and lose the light you are?
If you are God’s love song,
what is there to your life but singing?
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
We are given many gifts
over our lifetimes.
Gifts are heaped upon us.
Every day we receive.
The way we acknowledge these gifts,
the way we receive them,
the counting of the gifts,
awareness in each breath,
our most important choice.
One insight brings us life as
grace or prison.
Heaven or hell
is bound up in gratitude.
I have had many strange and wonderful gifts
received over my life,
so far.
Some took me a long time to recognize the gift within,
some I’m still searching.
Yet this knowledge,
this ability to see,
to choose to see,
the glory in the grey,
stars in the night sky,
there is good in all I receive,
has been the best gift
of all.
Life’s cup runs over.
The path is lined with glittering diamonds.
Even darkest skies are bright with twinkling stars.
AL
Listen to Billie Holiday sing Come Rain or Come Shine http://youtu.be/RL_P-gHxI3Y
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