RiversGrace

Navigating the Sacred and Mundane

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

What Shapes Me


Working Together

We shape our self
to fit this world

and by the world
are shaped again.

The visible
and the invisible

working together
in common cause,

to produce
the miraculous.

I am thinking of the way
the intangible air

passed at speed
round a shaped wing

easily
holds our weight.

So may we in this life
trust

to those elements
we have yet to see

or imagine,
and look for the true

shape of our own self,
by forming it well

to the great
intangibles about us.

-- David Whyte
from The House of Belonging
©1996 Many Rivers Press

3 Comments:

Blogger Carrie Wilson Link said...

That is a gorgeous picture of you! Are we growing River's bangs? I need to know ELD!

love.

3:55 PM  
Blogger Michelle O'Neil said...

Beautiful poem and even more beautiful are the lovelies in the photos!

5:19 PM  
Blogger Amber said...

River is SO CUTE, looking at her is like medicine. She makes me smile.

:)

10:39 AM  

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