Theodore Roethke

Those who are willing to be vulnerable

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among the mysteries.

Make me, O Lord, at last, a simple thing

Make me, O Lord, at last, a simple thing
Time cannot overwhelm.
Once I transcended time
A bud broke to a rose.
And I rose from a last diminishing.

And everything comes to One

. . And everything comes to One
As we dance on, dance on, dance on.

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The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

~ from TALKING TO GOD: PORTRAIT OF A WORLD AT PRAYER by Terry Tempest Williams, thanks to Liz Stewart