REFLECTIONS

We stop. We pause. We pay attention. We center ourselves.
We free ourselves from the compulsion of projects to finish, work to be
done, things to accomplish.
We leave ourselves alone for a time.
We journey deep down into that quiet center where no voice is heard.
We live for a brief time on an island of peace.
We apprehend the world from a quiet center.
Here is the center of the world.
In this instant are centered the whirling orbs, the movements of earth
and
sky.
In this fragile moment of time is he culmination of all that has been
and
the promise of all that shall be.
Here in our grasp, in this moment is the center of the world.

From the Rev. Richard S. Gilbert