7d • Gathered Gold
Gathered Gold - Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,
I love the way this poem speaks to beauty as something life is always offering, even when we are not always in the place to notice it.
It made me think about gratitude as something deeper than a practice.
A kind of devotion, maybe.
Not pretending everything is beautiful. Not ignoring the harder parts. But becoming more willing to notice what is still here.
Sometimes life’s loveliness is not hidden because it has gone.
Sometimes it is hidden because we are looking only at what is missing.
This week, we are exploring what life is still offering us.
You are very welcome to share one small offering you noticed today.
This week’s Gathered Gold comes from Sara Teasdale’s poem Barter.
Barter by Sara Teasdale
Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up
Holding wonder like a cup.
Life has loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of gold,
Scent of pine trees in the rain,
Eyes that love you, arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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Gathered Gold - Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,
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