A Song for the Search

Posted by on Sep 15, 2023 in Blog, Inspired Readings, Paul's Musings, Western Insight | Comments Off on A Song for the Search

…And the song rang out ‘midst the silence of the lodge

I have sat in the pews of hundreds of churches
Praised your name-Praised your name

I have greeted Mecca more times than I can remember
I have sat in the Zen-do with Buddha
And you came you came

So many sutras I’ve sung

And posed ten thousand asana

You were there
Before I channeled the avatar-
You counseled, “I am with you here, too”

My pilgrimage followed many roads
Climbed many mountains, sought hundreds of gurus
You walked, climbed, sat and listened in all of them

“You wish this road today”
You said. “A lovely color, a brilliant hue
It is true, it is true”

Yet I changed, looked to another,
You said,
“This will do, this will do”

Now I sit midst the darkness and heat-

The roads converging, the red, the green, the winding.

My shoulders gently held

Stay here

Was the feeling

My heart was all I heard

I was home.

— Paul Reynolds

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