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And then for our lectio divina practice, we read excerpts from @poetdavidwhyte.bsky.social's "Still Possible." Thank you to @kurtsimonson.bsky.social for choosing the song and the poem, for creating the graphic (with his own photograph!), and for reading so beautifully for us tonight. 🙏🏼❤️🏳️‍🌈
It's still possible to be kind to yourself, to drop constraints and fall often to your knees, it's not too late now, to bow to what beckons, the world still swimming around you as you kneel transfigured by what sweeps on, it's still possible to leave every former fearful self in the wake of newly-heard words issuing from an astonished mouth... It's still possible to intuit a magnificent, individual arrival, that brings you still closer to the accompanying faraway crowd; to live bravely and always, as someone said, to the point of tears, to realize that you have always had your life shattered and your heart broken and your faith tested by loving too much and too often and that all along, it was never too much and never too often, and that you were never, ever, fully broken. It's still possible to fully understand you have always been the place where the miracle has happened: that you have been since your birth, the bread given and the wine lifted, the change witnessed and the change itself, that you have secretly been, all along, a goodness that can continue to be a goodness to itself. It's still possible in the end to realize why you are here and why you have endured, and why you might have suffered so much, so that in the end, you could witness love, miraculously arriving from nowhere, crossing bravely as it does, out of darkness, from that great and spacious stillness inside you, to the simple, light-filled life of being said. "Still Possible" by David Whyte
April 29, 2025 at 3:58 AM