The Trackless Path

It is better to renounce life

Than to believe that something can be gained by coming back.

You will never figure it out

By turning and returning

And you will never secure the ones you love

By human love.

Only by letting go to the will of the divine

That leads to renouncing all

For the sake of an unseen world

Can we move on from the endless cycle

Of trying to figure it out.

About a woman I met on the street corner...

Crippled

All crumpled up.

But still doing her job, her sign out.

A shopping cart - she holds the side 

And with her other hand, she grasps the cane.

And wobbles.

And the cars pass by.

“Where are you going miss?” I ask.

“Do you need some help?”

And for a moment, she forgets,

And I point to the sign.

It has flopped over

“Oh yes,” she says.  “That’s right.”

I hand her a few dollars.

“Do you need to get somewhere?”

“No,” she says.  “He’s coming back, and I must stay.”

“My father is coming back.”

“Ok,” I say.  “Ok,” and walk away.

I look back over my shoulder,

And the sign is still folded over

And she stands there 

One hand on the cart 

And one on the cane.

All crumpled up

And still in pain.

And the people pass by as she waits.

Sometimes it is the abundance of choices that gets in the way

Because we believe that there is a right choice,

A perfect way.

But there's not.

The heart thing is the way.

The intent is the thing that matters.

And if the heart is right and the choice is wrong

That will sort itself out. It will self-correct with time and experience.

And the idea that we must get it right before we start

Only keeps us from starting.

Nature will have its way sooner or later. Is it possible to live in harmony with nature?

Rev 2:5 - Jesus can take away your candlestick

If we would create a better world, we must imagine it into being.

A spoken poem.

There will come a great leveling. What has gone up will eventually come down.

A true story about a small divine deliverance.

Patriarchal Part 9 of 9 - FINAL PART :-)