There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of  Spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At Night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its Face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and Open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window. Rumi

Today is a new day. The night will eventually give way to morning. The birds will again befriend the trees. The leaves will dance and sway with the wind. A sign of good things to come…

Nothing lifts the spirits more than the dawning of a new day with all its bright interpretive promise —with all its endless skies.

Today I choose to write again because I want to envision the morning rising from my fingertips compelling me to live inside and outside my story.

It is Monday and I don’t need a day off in order to welcome this sunrise. I am living and loving and therefore distrusting my calendar because it tells me it is still winter even though nothing in me is hibernating —everything is breathing and waiting for the spring sun.

When I was a child I used to lie on my back in the fields of grass and depart on a nearby cloud. I used to feel the earth move beneath my feet like a captive genesis at my command.

I used to kiss the morning on the mouth and allow the leaves to cover me like a lover. And I knew my joy could fill the earth.

Today I am going to live the story I write. I am going to experience the heart of God’s love pulsing with excitement.

Today I am going to move outside of my inside story. I am going to move the coffee table out of the living room and push myself to get on my knees and pray [not out of religious ritual or province] but like I did when I was a child — when all wanted was to talk to God.

I am going to accomplish something today. I am going to live out a part of my story with no paragraphs or quotations or re-read sentences or regrets.

Will you come play with me and walk with me beyond the language door?