Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Today’s text

Psalm 23:1-3

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.
   He makes me lie down in green pastures;
he leads me beside still waters;
   he restores my soul.

Stillness

Stillness without quiets

the inner heart awakening

the soul to need and oneness

with the One needed.

Water draws the soul to

its banks to sit and watch

light play, shadow and blue

upon the face of depths the

eye cannot see.

Blind to what lies beneath,

the soul waits for waters
to part revealing

sacred place where soul

and Soul are one

and hearts know

peace.

But first is the wanting, the

ache of aloneness, yearning

to hear the Voice within

one's own, to feel the One

within hidden depths of self

inseparately one, united

in One Love that is

Source and Home.

In stillness the soul waits,

led into the quiet by

One who waits for us to come

home to the waters, entering

there another stillness 

that is not ache

but the bliss of knowing.

Pr. David L. Miller