Clearing
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to the world
so worthy of rescue.
All the paths I tried to make through the dense forest of modern life brought me to a place where I became willing to take a chance on sitting down in the clearing to wait. Waiting can be tough. The mind likes to try and figuring things out, plan and progress. However, in the waiting there is a chance to take a look around, to take stock and inventory how things actually are unfolds. And then the lines of a song, my song began to fall into my cupped hands.
Waiting allowed me to time to engage in a program of spiritual growth where I am learning about letting go, about surrendering my will and opening myself to the possibility of allowing something greater to steer my life.
Slowly I am beginning to see how all that’s come before has led here, to this clearing. Each strand of my life has something to contribute to where I am now. I seem to be in a perpetual state of awe as these elements fall into place like a magical jigsaw I didn’t even know I was piecing together.
When I get myself out of the way and listen my song begins to play. All I need do is pick up the tune and give it a go. That is when the magic and miracles happen.
“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
