Day 19
A simple spirituality
Spend time with the photo
Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night—
And I love the rain.
Langston Hughes (1902-1967),
major poet, writer &leader in the Harlem Renaissance,
the 1920s flowering of black intellectual, literary, & artistic life
from "April Rain Song" (Permission granted by Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.)
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Christian spirituality proposes …
a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle,
capable of deep enjoyment
free of the obsession with consumption.
A return to that spiritual simplicity allows us
• to stop and appreciate the small things,
• to be grateful for opportunities which life affords,
• to be spiritually detached from what we possess, and
• not to succumb to sadness for what we lack.
Laudato Si’
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They find spring water to drink.
Psalm 84:7
Respond
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What if the Gift was,
actually,
that being your unique self,
your very unique self,
that personal, unusual, never-to-be-reproduced self,
was the very Calling you've been seeking?
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What if, that?