Today Isa sent me this song and my heart once again felt warm and protected. Please go over and say hi to Isa because she is a precious soul. Her daughter just started Kindergarten and is as cute as a button!
And I want to share this with you.
| Thanks | ||
| by W. S. Mervin | ||
Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
smiling by the windows looking out
in our directions
back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you
over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you
with the animals dying around us
our lost feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
we are saying thank you and waving
dark though it is | ||
Birdie. Thank you. For the poem and the link to Isa's gift of a song. Both beautiful reminders of the joy and beauty of the world - never far away to warm and protect us. x
ReplyDeleteLovel, loving song - very heartfelt voice.
ReplyDeleteYes, I know these same eye rolling people.
It's sad that they mock things that they don't understand. But the mockery comes from them and it doesn't undermine us in any way. I searched for a way not to take it personally and settled on feeling a sad tenderness towards them, adding a small prayer. And I have also learned to "test the waters" before speaking about anything "out of the ordinary" with someone whose intellect I am not familiar with.
I feel sad for those people who are skeptical about everything. I always want go encourage them to try but to no avail. I feel sorry that people do not allow such a wonderful soul as yourself to touch their life. People are sometimes so insecure a d negative that they are blind to the beauty around them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your words Birdie. Don't worry, everybody has their own time and only some know that the only way to open lives is through love.
ReplyDeleteWe keep saying "thank you" to them, til one day they'll say it back to us.
Love
Isa
I have just caught up with the posts since your mum's funeral. You are in the place where grief and anger and unhappiness all come at the same time. And I read also that you are angry at feeling grief.
ReplyDeleteFor Goodness sake's, woman, you will be grieving for a long time yet. What is there to be angry about?
You lost your mum, of course you're grieving.
And why all these comparisons with other kinds of grief? It's not a competition. You feel what you feel and others feel what they feel.
Yes, I am very sorry for your loss, but I am also sorry that you are so hard on yourself.
Allow yourself to cry and rave and rant and be heart-broken.
Finally I see how to comment on your blog again. For a long time I had the wrong link.
ReplyDeleteYou *do* go around just loving on people. And I, for one, am grateful to God for that. For you.
May I, and others, continue to love on you.
I had a very prickly person experience yesterday too (about the 8th time in a row with her). It is difficult for sensitive, loving people like you and me sometimes. But it is better than not being sensitive and loving.
I hope today you feel the sunshine and the breeze and see the sky and hear the birds. And feel the earth under your feet.
I hope you feel rooted to the depths of our nourishing planet, and lifted to the endless heights of the heavens.
Love!
Lynn
Such a beautiful song. I don't do well with prickly people either and to be honest, I just stay away from them so they cannot bring me down with their negativity.
ReplyDeletei just wanted to tell you how moved i was by your comment over at ms. moon's on her post about fathers. i will be back!
ReplyDeleteI have always been very friendly and open to talking about a variety of topics with many people. Not everyone is like that though.
ReplyDeleteI got my Reiki Master certificate earlier this year and hope to teach one day but I know that many of my friends and family are not interested so I won't even approach them about a class. Sometimes I feel sad that I have to sensor what I say and talk about depending on who I'm with but it's just how it has to be with some people and I try to honor that.
Thanks for visiting my blog! I'll stop by here again later and browse a little, maybe even check out those links you suggested. :)
~Mary
Birdie,
ReplyDeleteThank you for the goodness.
And thanks for sharing the experience of the born-againer and the person who doubted the powere of touch. To my mind, you present one who refuses to admit not knowing everything and one who refuses to admit there is more to know. Such people want security right now and in the form they want. I wish these people could accept we don't know everything, and this fact admits countless possibilities.
These people who know everything when no one really does....I feel sorry for. As I get older I realize that I know less and less.
ReplyDeleteIts a terrible thing when you encounter people that are so close minded and full of negativism.
ReplyDeleteYou keep on going we are here to send you love and positive thoughts.
I like the mood thesong creates.
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