Hello friends,
I really enjoyed Pastor Lee's Coffee Time Saturday morning. This is a poem that
I shared at that time that is inspired me during the shelter-in-place. I hope
you enjoy it.
Mary Alexander
As early as childhood, we have heard, “stop and count to ten” or in sports,
“time out.” The purpose of this concept is to stop, take time to think and then
act in a constructive way. This COVID-19, is such an annoying invisible
microorganism that has inconvenienced our comfort zone. I pray we will be good
stewards of what has been entrusted in our care. I hope that this discomfort
will sting us to unlock our spiritual strengths to discover new resources,
meaning and purpose of life.
Kitty O’Meara wrote a prose poem that invites us to “stop, think and regroup”
to find healing by re-learning our purpose and function during the COVID-19
crisis. Here it is.
"And the people stayed home"
KittyO'Meara's prose poem
And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and
exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and
were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.
Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.
And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant,
dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.
And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved
their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new
ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
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