Lest We Dissolve In Bliss

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, November 5, 2000

Lest we dissolve in bliss...

Perhaps it is in our times of inactivity
that our accounts will be measured;
not in those hours spent whirling madly
through life, getting things done,
but in the moments spent just sitting,
feeling the breeze and petting a butterfly.

Perhaps the activity in which we engage
is merely a covering to fill in the space
between those blest moments; a bridge
in time to bind us to this earth
and give our bodies the corporal form
they need lest they dissolve in bliss.

Perhaps the key, then, to our own sanctification
lies in balance, not in indolence:
to fill the spaces well, with worthy work,
an earth made more beautiful through our toil;
but to know that the meaning of these lives of ours
is truly formed in the golden punctuation at the end
of every line!

jbs
11/5/2000

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