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Regardless of current-day trends and practices, parenthood remains the most important profession on Earth. Even for the most dedicated and competent among us, parenthood is an endless process of joy and grief. The child who rose out of bed this morning is not the same child we tuck into bed at night. Of all the tasks we undertake in life, none commands our total presence so much as parenting - lest we regret most, among the things we didn't do in life, our failure to witness and participate in Creation's most meaningful invitation to a human being.
To Kalina and Marielle
Day’s End On Table Rock – 1997
The day draws to a close,
As crimson tints weave themselves
Into deepening golden sun beams
And shadows draw long on the sacred mountaintop.
My adolescent daughters huddle close
As the day of their childhood
Draws nigh into the chill air
Of uncertain adulthood.
How do they keep alive the memories
Of their day in the sun –
Intangible childhood treasures
That fade in the lengthening shadows of youth?
How can I comfort them that those treasures will emerge,
Sanctified by the dawning of adulthood’s sun?
Is it the warmth in their closeness
Or in the surrounding light that jolts me?
It is my day that ends as well –
In a melancholy comfort
That once needful daughters
Remain sisters forever.
Granville Angell © 2003
How could the soul not take flight When from the glorious presence A soft call flows sweet as honey, comes right up to her And whispers, 'Rise up now, come away.'
Rumi
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