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A dear friend who is about to record a CD posted this poem on facebook today, and it inspires me to keep writing my book. I hope it will inspire you to continue to let the holy words of your longing stretch forth from your mouths, your hands and your feet in all the ways you are called to create. Blessed be!
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken
English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
Original Language German
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing you as no one ever has,
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
— from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, by Rainer Maria Rilke / Translated by Joanna Macy
