I Have Often Pondered...

 

I have often pondered 

why those moments of catharsis, 

of mystery and surprising revelations 

are so few and far between for me — 

 those moments 

where I have come to the limits of my resources, 

and there is no way forward 

but to set down all my efforts

 at the feet of the higher.

Those moments of grace 

and that marvelous sense of freedom 

which comes with new energy 

and surprising gifts of understanding, 

why is it that I cannot call on them at will, 

or summon up that necessary sense of surrender easily?

~J

Perhaps it is a miracle that they happen at all. 

Maybe they happen infrequently 

because they are completely out of our control, 

like the force of a great storm on ship. 

The storm happens when mother nature decries, 

not when we want them, too. 

All we can hope to do 

is to be present and be moved 

and in tune with the subtle forces of nature 

and the higher worlds.

~G

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