While I am trying to get back into a more healthy rhythm, I was searching this morning – looking for writings about rest and I ran across this and wanted to share it.
Lightening The Load
The first thing we have to do
is to notice
that we’ve loaded down this camel
with so much baggage
we’ll never get through the desert alive.
Something has to go.
Then we can begin to dump
the thousand things
we’ve brought along
until even the camel has to go
and we’re walking barefoot
on the desert sand.
There’s no telling what will happen then.
But I’ve heard that someone,
walking in this way,
has seen a burning bush.
– Francis Dorff, O. Praem.
This gives a good start to today.
You can learn more about Fr. Fran here. He’s out in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area as a writer in residence at the Norbertine Hermitage Retreat Center.
