"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.
