#feeling calm

For a long time I had not heard such a silence

Of a sky on the eve of raining

Draining the gardens of all movement,

As eyes, ears are perked up, waiting

   The birds of every feather are gathering their kin

To whisper at the twigs on which they perch

Gently dancing at the times of stillness

Between when the winds decide to swiftly lurch

   Through an open window, the breaths trigger a chime

And on the horizon of these sounds,

A faraway marching band is drumming

As if marking the rhythm of heart of the moment I had found.

   For the first time in a long time I have noticed all these things

And knew I could never compete

Against the loving harmony of Earth

And am content to listen at her feet.

    For in this exhalation,

God has summed up the lives of many

When hearing this orchestra of silence,

I’m practicing yoga in my flowing dress today, feeling calm, centered, and filled with hope. Each pose brings forth an energy revival of global faith, balance, and the anticipation of Christ’s return to Earth 🌍✨

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And you know that you feel better when your dreams go from super wacky stories like "taking a final exam in advanced calculus when you should really be in chorus and you barely understand algebra, let alone calculus, and now you're complaining about how a raccoon ate this tutle you were trying to protect to Bernie Sanders, to which he says to me, 'That's what I like about you - you always try to do your best' " to simple and fun stories like "singing 'And I Will Always Love You' in a classical venue wearing an all-white cowgirl costume topped with a ten-gallon hat" and "an 'explosive bee' stung you, but it didn't really do much except make you bleed a little at a later time; Oh yeah, and that Christian group you were in with your friends from middle school finally disbanded".