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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.
- Marge Piercy, from “To Be of Use”
Thank you for all that you do to make this journey of change a little more understandable. In recent years the theological rugs are being pulled away from under our feet and gratefully being replaced by theology that you and others offer to folk like me whose theology never did make sense. Thanks again.
O wow. I love her to be of use poem !!!! And what synchronicity! As ive been profoundly yearning to be in deep water-- swimming, exercising in it a in various ways etc. ,as in the years when that was indeed healing for fibro, and now in these past fre years to the present, a much worse diSease prevents that! YET I GIVE THANKS FOR TRUSTING THE DEEP WATER"---- LEARNING TO LIVE SWIMMING UNDER THE SURFACE BEYONDVTHE ALSO DELIGJTFUL AT TIMES FLOATING SKYWARD FACING FLUFFY CLOUDS. Never learned to literally dive easily,...Yet all the ways water is OF USE BY HER VERY BEING AND IN MANY FORMS Essential for LIFE, PRECIOUS SISTER WATER, AS THE CANTICLE SPEAKS OF HER.. YET NOT MERELY UTILITARIAN.. SACRED. SPIRIT AND SENSORY; GENTLE STRONG. EPHEMERAL. FINIITE, VITAL REAL! THE CALL TO COMMIT TO LIFE AND WORK BY - as my teachers used to tell me I was" "deep"- rather than remaining satisfied with shallow, superficial and complacent. THANK YOU DIANA AND MARGE--- ON MANT LEVELS,!!!