Sowing

Saturday After Ash Wednesday

What a man sows, he reaps. If he sows in the field of self-indulgence  he will get a harvest of corruption out of it; if he sows in the field of the Spirit  he will get from it a harvest of eternal life.

                                                                                         Galatians 6:7-8

 To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.           

                                                                       Psalm 24:1

The horses stood in the snow falling on the world, on their backs all night.  I awoke several times during the long darkness and looked out at them in the field.  They stood so still with their heads bowed within the sky veiling down.  A silent and solitary vigil in the deep night as the field, filling with snow, became the clouds and the clouds became 
the field.

Oh, to stand beneath the Lord’s love falling luminously

out of all darkness,

brightening my way to Him who is everywhere

and nowhere;

who is now here

always and eternally

as the prayer becomes the one praying

and the one praying

becomes the prayer.