Humility of ear

I never know what will land in my inbox.

"The Christian church came into being at Pentecost. The gift of the Holy Spirit on that occasion is generally called the gift of tongues, but it might equally as well be called the gift of ears…. As writers, readers, human beings, we cannot speak to or understand each other unless we are first prepared to listen. Of all the gifts that the Holy Spirit is able to bestow, the one for which we should first and most earnestly pray is humility of ear."

                                          -W. H. Auden

                                          Source: Words and the Word

On this

The day after the feast

Of Pentecost

Auden lands

In my inbox,

Reminds me

There are so many gifts

Of the Spirit

And I

I sit in my blue chair

Organize the week  

In humility of ear,

Not knowing if anything

I say or pray

Will come out

In any particular way.

And I

I sit in my blue chair

And wait

For what comes next.