When, living in the present in profound attentiveness, we experience "timeless moments" of radical present and Presence, we come very near to God.
~ from TO EVERYTHING A SEASON by Bonnie Thurston
Learning to love differently is hard
Love with the hands open, love
With the doors banging on their hinges
The cupboard unlocked, the wind
Roaring and whimpering in the rooms
Rustling the sheets and snapping the blinds
That thwack like rubber bands
In an open palm.