Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you
Are not lost. Where ever you are is called HERE.
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger.
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers.
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying, HERE.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to wren.
If what a tree or bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
- David Wagoner
Holy Presence, may I breathe deeply and know full your movement in my life. May I remember to stop and listen with all my being for the blessing of this ‘here’.
Amen
- Read Proverbs 3: 19-20
Pot a plant:
use houseplants to freshen the air you breathe at home. Bamboo palm, Chinese evergreen, chrysanthemum, corn cane, dracaena, English ivy, gerbera, peace lily, snake plant, and philodendron are especially effective.
