“Set out, pilgrim. Set out into the freedom and the wandering. Find your people. Godde is much bigger, wilder, more generous, and more wonderful than you imagined.”― Sarah Bessey Joy and justice reside in grace. Thrive in gratitude. Find fulminating llanos of miracle, might, and magic contoured in story. Etched in song. Sculpted in the […]
The Old Woman and the Wave: Sage-ing, Age-ing, Wage-ing Wander & Wonder by Margot Van Sluytman
Poem by Dr. Sr. Brenda Peddigrew, RSM, PhD, Poet.
https://soulwinds.ca/brenda.html
Given to Grace
At seventy-six, I am swept
into a sea of gratitude – wave
after wave after wave- do they
ever stop?
Perhaps not. Perhaps
the gifts of a long life illumine
the years behind, but also
the years ahead. Perhaps
there could be no other life
than this one I have been
given. Given.
Not even chosen –
how could I know?
But given – so – no other
word but gratitude can speak
for such a life…
And the waves still come,
sweeping through a wondrous
heart – Given to Grace.
sending it out in waves. Perhaps
my heart – all along –
was a sea…
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