Good morning…
“This poem plays beautifully with your post about radical empathy,” she wrote.
Remember? Radical empathy is “actively striving to better understand and share the feelings of others. To fundamentally change our perspectives from judgmental to accepting, in an attempt to more authentically connect with ourselves and others.”
I agree with my friend. This powerful poem plays beautifully with our post about connecting authentically with God, self, and others.
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“The Place Where We Are Right” by Yehuda Amichai
From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.
The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard.
But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined
House once stood.
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Moving away from the hard, trampled place where we are “right,” how might “what we doubt” and “what we love” help to dig up new common ground? Then, resting awake in the place where the ruined house once stood, might we each hear the whisper of Almighty God?
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”
Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment” (Revelation 21:3-6, ESV).
…Sue…
