Pause.

 

I stood before a silk worm one day.
And that night my heart said to me,

“I can do things like that, I can spin skies,
I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;
I can be soft against a crying face,
I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet
throughout the earth,
my sacks filled
with the
sacred.”

And I replied to my heart,

“Dear, can you really do all those things?”

And it just nodded, “Yes”
in silence.

So we began and will never
cease.

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. “The Silk Worm.” From Love Poems From God by Daniel Ladinsky.

“I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”

Jesus. Matthew 11:29.