Lent 2021: A Story to Live BySample

Revel in the music

Reflection:

A song thrush makes the poet think of God

After perhaps fifteen minutes or so

I gave up looking for the song thrush;

not because I am impatient

(though there is that)

not because I didn't want my coffee to get cold

(though there is that);

no, it is because I realised

that as long as I was searching

I was not listening;

as long as my mind was grasping

my heart was not receiving;

as long as my eyes were straining

to find the source of the music

I could not stop 

to revel in the fact

that there should be music at all.

Author: Gideon Heugh