Music of the Spheres

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Music of the Spheres

The Temple Bells

Youth Retreat, 1992

God, I thank you for chords sweet and fragrant

Whose music causes me to follow and to wonder.

God, I thank you for chords I cannot see or understand

Whose music will touch the hearts of those I cannot know.

God, I thank you for chords bitter to taste and hard to swallow

Whose music heals and nourishes and causes me to stretch and grow.

God, I thank you for chords I cannot hear

Whose music invades my soul and will not be silent.

God, I thank you for chords warm and gentle

Whose music wraps me in your love and causes me to return your song.

© 1992 JORJA DAVIS

Challenge

Challenge

As light pushes its way out of darkness,

My brain and body push their way out of sleep.

I always wonder in that place where the sun

Is just ready to jump into the sky

Just how much of me there will be today.

Then beyond the first twenty brutal steps

Where the pain is the distillate of darkness and

The sun is in my eyes, there I take account

Of the challenges I’ll face today,

I remember I dreamt of horses at the carwash.

                                             By Jorja Davis

                                             3/15/2012