The Bright Field
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
of great price, the one field that had
the treasure in it. I realize now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
- R. S. Thomas, Welsh Poet and Priest
To ponder and pray:
¨ What fields in your life are fallow at the moment? By choice or not?
¨ What fields in your life are worn out and in need of Sabbath rest?
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