CLARITY IS FREEDOM
 
I had tea yesterday with a great theologian,
and he asked me,
 
“What is your experience of God’s will?”

I liked that question –
for the distillation of thought hones thought in others.
Clarity, I know, is freedom.
 
What is my experience of God’s will?
 
Everyone is a traveler.  Most all need lodging, food,
and clothes.
 
I let enter my mouth what will enrich me.  I wear what
will make my eye content,
I sleep where I will
wake with the
strength to
deeply
love
 

all my mind can
hold.
 
What is God’s will for a wing?
Every bird knows
that.
 
~ St. Teresa of Avila
 
 
 
(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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