A Prayer
At this moment the world offers us a gift.
Silence, a few heartbeats of quiet.
We may take anything we wish into that silence.
Perhaps a story. Or a fragment of a story.
The good rabbi Jesus told us what paradise, that place from before our first thought, what our heart’s healing looks like.
He said it is a mustard seed, that is, it is like the smallest thing you can imagine.
It is cast into the soil, and if that soil is good, and if it is tended and cared for, the seed changes and grows.
And grows.
And becomes something beautiful.
Shelter for the birds of heaven.
And, so, now we cast our hearts into the silence, the richest soil of all.
Let us care.
Let us notice.
Let us see what appears.
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