Knowing God

KNOWING GOD

Oh lone crazed bird

singing in the night—

you sing with your whole body

while the rest of us sleep.

I go to close the window

when my wife touches my arm

and we listen.

You call out

like a saint robbed of words.

Are you blind and trapped

in a vision of sun?

Or do you simply see farther

than the rest of us?

Do you see the light coming?

Do you feel the beads of warmth

forming in the dark?

Oh what has stirred

that thing in you that sings?

Stir me now.

Sing me clean.

A Question to Walk With: Watch some birds at daybreak and journal what you see and hear.

Sounds True recently published a new, expanded edition of Inside the Miracle: Enduring Suffering, Approaching Wholeness, which gathers twenty-eight years of my writing and teaching about suffering, healing, and wholeness, including thirty-nine new poems and prose pieces not yet published. One of the great transforming passages in my life was having cancer in my mid-thirties. This experience unraveled the way I see the world and made me a student of all spiritual paths. With a steadfast belief in our aliveness, I hope what’s in this book will help you meet the transformation that waits in however you’re being forged. Knowing God is an excerpt from the book.