Inside The Sanctuary At Flat Rock

(celebrating community with friends)

Listen.

Friendship is speaking,

saying nothing in particular

the way sunlight chatters blue

and yellow across morning trees,

inviting us to enter with nothing

but the eloquence of our presence,

knowing that goodness always

tastes better unannounced

and that hope arrives like autumn air

climbing through open windows,

pushing us beneath the covers 

into the warmth of simply being 

together again 

in this world as it really is.

You don’t have to admire the conversation.

You don’t have to love everything it says.

You just need to turn toward it and choose

to offer your everyday life’s attention 

one more time.