Everything Matters

"The tasks that have been entrusted to us

are often difficult.

Almost everything that matters is difficult,

and Everythng Matters."

--taken from A YEAR WITH RILKE

Rilke is feeding me these days. I keep looking around at everythng in my life that matters. And, yes, I want to be right in the heart of all that matters. Everything Matters!

• Winter and Spring kissing each other


• Old sycamore tree leaves acting as mulch for the frozen crocuses


• the moment before forgiveness


• and the moment after


• the clumsey way we try to love each other


• the joy we thought we didn't have, then stumbled over


• courage digging its way out of fear


• the jeweled tear rolling down a cheek


• frozen hearts learning to thaw


• the flight of the bird in the winter storm


• the people in Haiti


• that moment when something goes wide in our hearts


• the clock ticking minutes into eternity


• the rabbit caught in a trap


• the sleepless nights


• the immense hunger for a kind word


• the lies told out of fear


• the fly caught in the spider web


• a poet' s heart growing wings
  
• an elderly woman pushing her wheel chair down the hall


• every act of love performed for those suffering


• the glimmer of light after a long darkness

Everything matters and in my own beautifully human yet often inept way, I want to be there in the mattering...even if my presence isn't a perfect presence. I want to practice being there. I want to practice seeing with a lucidity that enhances my gentle spirit. And YOU, whoever you are reading this, take these words into your dear soul; and in the deepest recesses of your being rejoice because YOU MATTER.