We are Being as well as Becoming

I performed this poem at Second Sunday Spoken Word last night – it was a soft experience, playful and calm

My hunch is because I had experienced a sabbath

The day was a melody as I simmered in awareness of God’s presence from dawn until dusk

Beginning with Father John Robert Skeldon at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral

Then, pausing over a hot matcha and warm cranberry and orange scone at Crude Craft Coffee Bar in Near Southside FTW as I gazed out the window admiring the fall leaves dancing in a light breeze

And finally, allowing these words to move through me in a spirit of wonder and as an invitation for us to come alive

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We are being as well as becoming

Each is made in the gaze of the other

Traveling not from one to the other but deeper within

Living the eternal lesson of learning to love being human

destined to forget and remember

Unfolding uncovering it is the experience we call life

enlivening enriching accompanied being as well as becoming