When I let it out to breathe ordinary air

I have begun reading Awaken Your Senses: Exercises for Exploring the Wonder of God by J. Brent Bill and Beth A. Booram.  They are offering a contest and a challenge for the next five weeks.  This week involves paying attention to how the sense of taste enables a deeper understanding of God.  Join them and me this week. http://holyordinary.blogspot.com/2012/02/taste-sense-of-week.html   I understand there are prizes.  Prizes are good (and fun).  This also seems a good pre-Lenten activity.

Many of us  

OK, I*ll admit it,

I

All too often

Engage in the practice

Of disconnection

From the world

From God

From self.

I am good at it.

When many of us

OK

I

Have everything beautifully ordered

In my head

It usually enters chaos

When I let it out to breathe

Ordinary air.

It goes from tightly ordered

Beautiful

Recognizable

To anything but ordinary.

Connection swirls it around to be something

I barely recognize

When I let it out to breathe

Ordinary air

There is no telling

What might happen.