Happy Spring, everyone! Although Tahoe is still locked in snow tunnels--the Robins have arrived, chipmunks are out of hibernation and the doves are cooing! Below is a Spring Tribute, please enjoy and may it benefit your practice of looking deeply....
Jesus
In A Flower Pot
©2017 Karla Johnston, InnerConstellation.com
Jogging alongside Tahoe snow banks 7 feet high,
baking in March sunshine,
I run on black warmed asphalt.
Spring run-off gurgles through gutters like a river
as Gore-Tex runners
skim through the wet,
splashing snow-melt
in sprays of liquid light.
Neighbor's house is passed for the hundredth time,
but in this moment, snow has melted and crumbled away,
exposing a beraggled flower pot--
a tiny plastic Jesus stands askew among the carnage of winter,
water jug tipped,
cradling a loaf of bread—
compassion's cup extended.
Feet stop running,
hands come together in one full breath…
bow
and receive
spring's blessing.
I run on black warmed asphalt.
Spring run-off gurgles through gutters like a river
as Gore-Tex runners
skim through the wet,
splashing snow-melt
in sprays of liquid light.
Neighbor's house is passed for the hundredth time,
but in this moment, snow has melted and crumbled away,
exposing a beraggled flower pot--
a tiny plastic Jesus stands askew among the carnage of winter,
water jug tipped,
cradling a loaf of bread—
compassion's cup extended.
Feet stop running,
hands come together in one full breath…
bow
and receive
spring's blessing.
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