Bij de 17e zondag door het jaar
Het wonder van de broden en de vissen door Jacopo Bassano, ca, 1580
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Why worry about the loaves and fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love
and the felt ferocity of that love
and the felt necessity of that love,
the fish explode into many.
Imagine him, speaking,
and don’t worry about what is reality,
or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it is all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy.
Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word
spoken with love.
Mary Oliver (Maple Heights, 10 september 1935)
Veteranen Memorial in Maple Heights, de geboorteplaats van Mary Oliver
Zie voor de schrijvers van de 29e julli ook mijn vorige blog van vandaag.