Listening inside

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, February 27, 2011

There is inside these hearts of ours
an ancient wisdom
which can guide our souls to places
 we’ve never even dreamed about

If we listen deep inside,
we can see the signs in our mind’s eye;
feel the heat of the celestial fire in our hearts;
read the golden letters carved on the very walls of our beings.

Surface life is fine for surface dwellers;
But spiritual beings yearn to come back home.
The journey is not always such a hard one,
but to take it,
one must make it;
one must decide to leave the surface behind.

So open the ears of your soul
and listen.
Open your eyes, too--
and that means turning off
the harsh, garish lights,
the incessant, meaningless noise that’s all around us,
if only for a little while.
It means turning off the lights,
and turning on to life,
and coming home
to the God inside again,
at last.

jbs
3/22/99        5/6/01       2/27/11

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