Be still
“Come and be still,” says the Holy.
Linger in Love’s presence.
Let striving cease.
Accept what is,
for what is.
All is held in Sacred embrace.
Here,
your pain is honored.
Your loss is acknowledged.
Your struggle is neither dismissed nor inflated.
It rests in the web of shared existence,
cruel and beautiful.
Eventually, love will ask more of you…
Honesty.
Change.
Commitment.
Compassion.
But in this moment,
feel the nearness of the Source of Life Itself,
tender and fierce.
Know that the Infinite embraces you
in all the ways you are essential –
and not.
Let your chest rise and fall
to the rhythm of eternity’s breath:
slow.
gentle.
consistent.
– Rev. M Barclay, enfleshed
