The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
– from Wendell Berry in The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Jeff, thank you for this tender tender poem. How lovely it is, and how beautifully it speaks to my heart as I gently push my own goslings out of the nest and encourage them to fly and nest and make their own way in this wide world. And the restless sleep I have during this time of transition, and the fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be….
What a tender capturing of Psalm 23….
awwwww…….
Thank you Lord for Wendell…
and Jeff,
And the day-blind stars…
Amen