Thursday, February 16, 2023

Collapse in Wonder

The Window (1970)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Zhivotkov

Here’s another social media share from Ramona. Plus, it reminds me of yesterday’s Mary Oliver.

Susceptible to Light 

By Chelan Harkin 


“You don't have to believe in God

but please collapse in wonder

as regularly as you can


try and let your knowledge

be side swiped by awe

and let beauty be so persuasive

you find yourself willing

to lay your opinions at her feet 


Darling, you don't have to believe in God

but please pray

for your own sake

great prayers of thanks 

for the mountains, the great rivers

the roundness of the moon

just because they're here at all

and that you get to know them

and let prayer bubble up in you

as a natural thing 

like song in a bird


You don't have to have

a spiritual path 

but do run 

the most sensitive

part of your soul 

over the soft curves 

of this world

with as much tenderness

as you can find in yourself

and let her edgeless ways

inspire you to discover more 


just find a way

that makes you want to yield

yourself

that you may be more open

to letting beauty fully

into your arms


and feel some sacred flame

inside of you that yearns toward

learning how to build a bigger 

fire of love in your heart


You don't have to believe in God

but get quiet enough to remember

we really don't know a damn thing 

about any of it

and if you can, feel a reverence to be part 

of This Great Something

whatever you want to call it

that is so much bigger

and so far beyond 

the rooftops of all

our knowing.”


Written by Chelan Harkin - Susceptible to Light


“The sunlight glints from the church-dome, glances into the prison-cell, glides into the sick-chamber, brightens the flower, beautifies the landscape, blesses the earth. Man, made in His likeness, possesses and reflects God’s dominion over all the earth. Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.” 

Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 516:16-22


“All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. The smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder, and a blade of grass a sign of God’s perfection.” 

A Course in Miracles T-17.II.6:1-3

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