Month: September 2016

Peace Like A River

Just when this world was well and truly crushing me, the universe sent me a beautiful day. Moon still visible in the blue sky above the horse barn late morning. Curious horses wuffling my arm. A black rat snake and a great blue heron sharing the mud along the lakeshore, native persimmon trees laden down with not-quite-ripe fruit.

At the end of it all, a little boy eager to teach me how to sit quietly for meeting for worship with an acorn in hand to focus on. He closed this lesson with the “peace like a river in my heart” verse from the old spiritual.

For a moment, I was able to remember that the only thing we can ever do is the next right thing.