mending stone sharon duerst author
Quirky Enthusiast Of Things Creative, Beautiful, And Good
My everything is you
You who shine
You who send your light afar and warm the dank and dark and dreaded
You who give and give and do not give up, but grow in your giving and have more
My everything is happiness
A nesting
A place of being
Inside, not outside myself
My everything
Is you
You who capture my attention again and again
You who continue to show all that is good
Thank you for being you
When life is strange, I am out of sorts, off-balance. When life is strange, things look different.
When life is strange, it’s hard to know why. Or what to do to get back to even ground emotionally. Things just seem weird. And feelings are easily hurt, words and meanings misconstrued. These times, I wish I could go to bed and sleep off the erratic thoughts.
What really would help is time away to wild places.
Wild places beat their own time in wind and pushing up and weathering down
Wild places
Let wild places blow away whatever is strange
bring color back to favor
Let wonder make a shift in you
Let nature ease out darkness and show it’s special light
Let your heart be eased from distress to thankfulness
This, too
Allowed now
Mother morning wakes soft as
spun clouds
around and around the earth turning like a stick in a drum sky
making sweet candy
for melting in our eager mouths
Does She smile, waiting on our happy sighs, our smiles thanking the day?
Peace is there
There in the light
Don’t be afraid
As it’s beauty fades
Peace is not stagnant
It moves and breathes
With us, in us
We are made in peace
We have only to remember
Someday we will know why. Explanations to every why. Any rumbling, anguished, “Why? Why?!”
Someday we will see answers to all questions. And the hope is, when we finally understand all this, we will feel peace.
I need the peace now. I need to see it there in the sky, feel it in my being, breathe it through my life.
Spreading beauty helps. Sending love helps. Kindness of spirit helps. Generosity of being helps. Let me be of peace.
mending stone sharon duerst author 