Labor Day

Shalom!

Monday is Labor Day. I'm hoping no pastor reads this on Monday! It's a Holyday!

Monday was one of my days to really dig in to the work of the week. So when Monday was a holyday/holiday, I just assumed that meant more opportunity to get a jump on the week. Not so! It's a holyday.

Bill Moyers interviewed poet Robert Bly on his recent PBS JOURNAL. Bly was encouraging all of us to rest and seek a calming balance in our lives. He recited these lines from his own translation of Rainer Maria Rilke:

"I am circling around God, around the ancient tower,
and I have been circling for a thousand years,
and I still don't know if I am a falcon,
or a storm,
or a great song ..."

Holydays help us remember, it seems to me, that we are great songs.

Shalom!
dave