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I love today’s poem (and in fact chose it as the poem for the postcards that we sent out all over the place).
It reminds me of one of my favourite sayings (that I’ve been working to since I was 25, when I started getting rid of stuff), William Morris’ “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”. On looking for this online – I found this blog post (and this always reminds me of Brian Draper’s “Less is More“:
Maggi Dawn
Today Maggi gives us the raising of Lazarus as today’s ‘pause for thought’ – an encouraging earthiness as we think about this story. Images we’ve seen of Jesus in most western art have him floating around in a ‘transcendent’ way, and actually here he may have had a blotchy face/runny nose for his tears (and Maggi suggests a number of reasons why he might have been crying – knowing that he was about to raise Lazarus from the dead).
Other than physical death, we can have a kind of ‘living death’, putting up with jobs, etc. that are crushing our spirits … its takes time and courage to break out of this (whether that be moving on, or challenging within a role), but only then can we grasp life with both hands .. and thinking back to today’s poem … not be pulled back by life’s clutter, but move forward (and not in exec speak either!).