listening

be still, and know that I am God be still, and know be still BE -David, Psalm 46

Sit down alone and in silence. —St. Symeon the New Theologian

I rose this morning early as usual, and went to my desk. But it’s spring, and the thrush is in the woods, somewhere in the twirled branches, and he is singing… I am touching a few leaves. I am noticing the way the yellow butterflies move together, in a twinkling cloud, over the field. And I am thinking: maybe just looking and listening... See more