When you close your eyes to pray
And your mind starts drifting off
Do you feel a little shame
Like you’re getting something wrong
Like there’s a way you’re supposed to be
That you haven’t figured out
And if any of it is real
Then you should be there by now
God is in no hurry.. You can take your time.
Trusting that the process is part of the design.
Following the crumbs of what makes you come alive–Cause he loves you where you are–
Not where you should be. God is in no hurry.
When you step inside the church and you see the hands held high–
Do you wonder what they heard–And why you can’t feel that fire?
So, it’s either, all pretend–just emotions all stirred up or a deficiency within.–
You’re not spiritual enough.
Well, God is in no hurry.. You can take your time.
Trusting that the process is part of the design.
Following the crumbs of what makes you come alive–
Cause he loves you where you are-
Don’t Worry by Mary Oliver
Things take the time they take.
Don’t worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow
before he became St. Augustine?
| “It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.” Wendell Berry |
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS BY WENDELL BERRY
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.