When I think about my Lenten journey last year, I’m reminded of the first few lines of the Mary Oliver poem Wild Geese:
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
You don’t need to be good. You just need to try your best to be receptive, to recognize that God might be trying to reach out to you right where you are. Settle in. Say to God, Here I am. Sit and BE with God and God will let you glimpse God’s power.
--Vicky McBride
Image source & poem by Mary Oliver: http://sacompassion.net/poem-wild-geese-by-mary-oliver/
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