Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Companionship

Companionship

A wonderful quote of Yours from a half-century ago.
I prefer the gesture You made this morning over breakfast –

the gesture of love and forgiveness:
a welling up from the heart, an overflowing

pulled from the chest by Your lovely hands.
After all these years, I no longer come to You

for guidance; I come to You for companionship.
You give what cannot be taught . . . or learned.

Courage, poise, faith, patience – these qualities
do not enter the heart through ear nor eye.

Awakening involves being broken open.
What words can accomplish that?

O child of God, words of the Avatar are precious gems,
but His companionship is the treasure without equal.

                                       (from The Garden of Surrender, 2004)

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