Saturday, February 15, 2014

SO TELL ME, 
"WHAT IS IT 
 YOU PLAN TO DO 
WITH YOUR ONE 
WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE?"



Poem For Today  - February 15,  2014
THE MULE

 Row after row
Corn leaves broke their spines
On my shoulders.

 I leaned by life
Against harness
I drew it through
Fields, down trails,
In timbered darkness.

The corn leaves
Then turned brown.
I dragged the logs away
On washed-out roads, 
And I became afraid.
I tried the ground for failure
With my feet.
I did not trust
The very earth
Which kept me from falling.

 I found no treachery,
No pitfall; just sun, time,
Dust, and at last the night.
© Boynton Merrill, Jr.


 Question: It behooves each of us to write our autobiography, "the story of a life" as Harry Chapin puts it in his song with that title - or as Mary Oliver puts it in her poem, The Summer Day, "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life." Sometimes we might have felt we were a mule or an ass - a swan or an eagle. So what is, what was, our plan for our one life?  Is John 10:10 our gospel text?


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