Time to Pause and Reflect

 

 

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'Clearing'

Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself to this world
so worthy of rescue.

by Martha Postlethwaite

Euro 2020 is over, the Covid restrictions are about to be lifted, so perhaps now is an apt time to pause and reflect.

Writing Prompt:

• Can you 'create a clearing in the dense forest of your life' and wait there patiently? What might fall into your 'cupped hands'? How might you 'give yourself to this world?'