God – Page 5 – Generous Wisdom

Soft Ground

It’s delicate,
the egg and womb,
the egg and nest,
the egg and the world.

I’m walking on Spring’s soft ground,
a long thought, winding through broken light,
sweeping over blue sky,
living in God’s big love.

I see the water-filled sky
and its broken light; I see its
clouds, swept milky-white.

We’re practicing looking up,
looking out and up
rather than forward and down,

and it’s working,
the veil
I’m almost seeing through

is a fluttering life lived imperfectly
within the vastness of
God’s big heart.

“God is always beyond God, the iconoclast par excellence,
who over and over breaks out of the forms and symbols of our making.”
~ Bernard J. Lee, SM

I stand at the sink
scrubbing the shiny steel pan
when my littlest one asks me to read.

I ask for his patience,
one, two, three times, and
so he reads to me,

“Mom is beautiful, her hair,
her face, she is beautiful.
Her heart is love.”

And then I know
the vast and mighty love
that pours itself from the smallest vessels.