Guest guest Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 Don't feel indebted to me to send 12 abstracts. Your words are more healing and refreshing to me than all the research in the world. I feel my healing is happening now because I have stopped to pause to accept healing. This searching for the answer is so all consuming-so addictive that we forget that our bodies and healing from the source are there for us at any moment without intervention from medication. Of course, I haven't stopped taking the meds, Ah, me of little faith. Marie --- Schaafsma <compucruz@...> wrote: > > [i know...two consecutive posts that have no obvious > bearing on our > group. This is a kind of sequel to 'The River Before > Me,' though, > and I found after I wrote it I could not bear for > the one to be here > without the other. So I made myself a promise, which > I will try to > keep: For every post like this, I will post half a > dozen abstracts > that actually seem relevant. Damn! That'll teach me > to wax poetic! > Already 12 abstracts in debt! Pub Med, here I come!] > > A Morning Prayer > > A morning prayer rises like mist from the dew. > > I dreamed us as the two hands of a clock, and > admired all the angles > we formed as we circled the day together. > > I believe it is a true dream. Any two people form an > angle like > that, which if you take its measure tells you > something unique about > the moment in time they share. > > I have so much time now, with this illness. > > When I look at the clock, it is always 5:05 or > 11:11, a moment in > the day when two hands come together, as in prayer, > pointing in > exactly the same direction. > > At dusk, when your work is done and you come home to > me, I will > tell you my dreams. > > I dreamed us as an old couple, who walk down to the > river together > at dusk, and the river is not my life or your life, > but life. > > Where is life? > > Here, now, within us, among us, at hand. > > And what is at hand, here and now, within and among > us? Life! > > The hours of our days are numbered like Bible > verses, so that we can > find them and read their story, whenever something > reminds us of > them. > > Sometimes I ask you what time it is, just for the > pleasure of > hearing your voice call out the minute and the hour. > I pretend I'm > flirting with a stranger. `Hey, do you have the > time?' > > Courses for beginners are numbered 101, which stands > for that > privileged moment in life when we are together, at > the very > beginning of a new, shared destiny. > > We belong to a tribe of lifelong beginners, who > never pass the > moment of 1:01 without sending up thanks to Life, > for the chance to > begin again. > > I woke this morning at 5:05, and felt that you too > woke just then, > and for all the miles between us we were really both > moving in the > same great house, turning lights on and making ready > to greet the > dawn. > > Like two hands of a clock, we never part for long. I > move past you 6 > hours, and though we are aligned I feel we are so > far apart! But I > do not try to reverse my steps and run back to you. > I take 6 more, > and we are together again, back in our beginning. > > On every face that takes time's measure, one sees > two hands in > motion. One sweeps through the hour, one sweeps > through the day. If > you look very close, you see a third. How thin it > is! Always on the > move, its seems, but that is a trick of perspective. > Look closely > now, see how it pauses, stopping to savor every > second of every hour > of every day. Thin? It's as slim as the prospect of > heaven on earth, > but without its efforts life on earth would come to > a halt, and > heaven would be bereft. > > This is the hand of the spirit, that brushes us both > as it passes, > and for that moment we know exactly who and what we > are. > > I dreamed the spirit was our child and our teacher, > and you and I > thrilled to its voice as the three of us rested > together, all in the > same moment, each sure of our place. > > I love you. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents./emoticontest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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