For Your Quarantine Sanity – a link for 3/25/20
This beautiful poem from Franciscan Br. Richard Hendrick: Lockdown
https://paceebene.org/blog/2020/3/17/lockdown-a-poem-for-troubling-times
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I Heard a Voice
Not sure who it was.
My intuition? The universe?
Mother earth? God?
(All of the above?)
This is more than it seems, it said.
Like an embryo in an egg, it said,
You will either hatch now
Or go rotten.
The message still echoes inside
These white walls.
I think it's for me, and also
For everyone.
-- Brian D. McLaren
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Don’t Go Back to Normal
When this is over,
Don't treat it like a virus
That allows you to pick up where you left off,
Feeling better, feeling normal, feeling as good as before.
Treat it like puberty.
When it is over, you'll never be the same again.
It will leave its mark on you.
You'll leave behind what you were before
Forever.
You will gain new capacities, new desires, new responsibilities,
New challenges.
Your voice will change.
Every month or so, your body
Will remind you that you are part of something bigger
Than the games you have been playing so far.
You'll still be you, of course,
But you'll have seen things, known things, felt things,
That you can't unsee, unknow, or unfeel.
The worst thing that could happen to you
Is to return to the old normal, because
A new adventure
A new chapter
A new maturity awaits.
-- Brian D. McLaren
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For Your Quarantine Sanity – a Post for 3/23/20
This poem feels like a psalm for our times ... I encourage you to read it aloud, to yourself, or to someone you are sheltering in place with.
https://en.doppiozero.com/content/march-ninth-twenty-twenty
Thank you for the gift of this poem, Mariangela Gualtieri, and thank you for the translation, Lucy Rand (lucyrand.com) and Clarissa Botsford.
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