Thursday, July 10, 2014

Ebb and Flow: Learning Wisdom


Do I catch the wave today?

Do I stand, ankle-deep, in conversations, discerning the best moment to speak?

Do I sleep until it is time to awaken, and then rise to the graceful rhythm?

Do I absorb information, examine it, synthesize it, and then at just the right juncture form a conclusion?

Do I dwell in sounds of the day—radio, internet, television, phone—and understand at which hour it is best to invite silence?

Do I savor the words and ideas of others and then add to them, at the crest of thought, my own words and ideas?

Do I know when to drink, and stop drinking? When to eat and stop eating?

Do I walk until it is time to sit down? Do I work until it is time to cease working?

Do I offer embrace when it is time, careful to measure the weight of need, the moment of asking?

Do I recognize when it is time to be brave and when it is better to hold back?

Do I utter my desires to God? Do I wait for God’s desires to make themselves known to me?

Will I catch the wave today—the moment before the swell, or the moment after its breaking?

 

 

 

 

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