🙈 TREE 657: Unseen unity

L A W R E N C E × J E F F
chapter · 4
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It is standard practice
nearly a requirement
to state sadly
angrily
but with great assurance
as if declaring a regrettable
mathematical fact
People
Are
More
Div
ided
Than
Ever

It’s a lie
of course
Edging closer to truth
we might say
instead
that blindness to
the symbiotic unity
that is all life
on this one planet
has grabbed the controls

Refusing to be blind
then becomes
an act of courage

I spend most of Monday listening to most of Dessa’s music for the first time.

Grow slowly
Jeff

PS Here’s the quote from Brother Lawrence that inspired today’s post:

He told me, that all consists in one hearty renunciation of everything which we are sensible does not lead to God; that we might accustom ourselves to a continual conversation with Him, with freedom and in simplicity. That we need only to recognize God intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.