Sunday, December 18, 2022

The Reason Birds Can Fly

Image: C.F.A. Voysey




Storage by Mary Oliver 


"When I moved from 

one house to another,

there were many things 

I had no room for. 



What does one do? 

I rented a storage space 

and filled it.


Years passed.


Occasionally, 

I went there 

and looked in, 

but nothing happened, 

not a single twinge 

of the heart.


As I grew older 

the things I cared about 

grew fewer but were 

more important,

so one day I undid the lock

and called the trash man. 

He took everything.



I felt like the little donkey 

when his burden is finally 

lifted.


Things! Burn them, burn them!

Make a beautiful fire! 



More room in your heart 

for Love, for the trees.

For the birds who own

nothing; 


the reason they 

can fly."

Mary Oliver




“Your Father knoweth that you have need of nothing. In Heaven this is so, for what could you need in eternity? In your world you do need things. It is a world of scarcity in which you find yourself because you are lacking. Yet can you find yourself in such a world? Without the Holy Spirit the answer would be no. Yet because of Him the answer is a joyous yes! As Mediator between the two worlds, He knows what you have need of and what will not hurt you. Ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you. The ego wants to have things for salvation, for possession is its law. Possession for its own sake is the ego’s fundamental creed, a basic cornerstone in the churches it builds to itself. And at its altar it demands you lay all of the things it bids you get, leaving you no joy in them.” A Course in Miracles T-13.VII.10:2-13




“Nature voices natural, spiritual law and divine Love, but human belief misinterprets nature. Arctic regions, sunny tropics, giant hills, winged winds, mighty billows, verdant vales, festive flowers, and glorious heavens, — all point to Mind, the spiritual intelligence they reflect. The floral apostles are hieroglyphs of Deity. Suns and planets teach grand lessons. The stars make night beautiful, and the leaflet turns naturally towards the light.” Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 240:1-9

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