Know the Largeness

Prayer walking into town this morning, walked along the bulwarks rather than underneath the castle walls, as our architect agrees that the walls aren't in a good state (though we did come back that way). 

Quite a novelty to see clouds. And water coming again into the inlet nearest us, on the right of the photo. To the right of the inlet, a bit of the road we walk along on the Lula walk. And, just underneath the water, you can see the solar panels of the house we now live in. Monsaraz on its hill in the background, and the São Sebastião chapel more in the foreground, that gives its name to the bottom half of our Land. To the left of that, a bit of the white wall of the pigsty we are hoping to one day live in, then, more to the left, the trees, with their green protectors that Paul and Mike planted. Above them, far right, the São Pedro chapel on the island, and if you look very carefully, Mike's Bather in the water. 

Can you see one of our neighbour, Rodrigo's, sheep standing between two of his trees, bottom right?

From Darkling:
I peer through the curtain,
and suddenly it feels as though
I have walked over a grave.
Orion looms vast in the sky,
unfathomable in its beyonding,
and for an eternal moment
I am inhaled by the cosmos,
falling into the terror of distance.

In the firmament I am nothing.
My failures, my successes 
become absurd.

May you know your smallness.
May you be regrounded constantly by moments of beauty.
And may you know the largeness of the love in which you dwell.


Gratefuls:
- Mum and Jedi going home from hospital
- Mike´s driving license application being approved (mine has been rejected); back to Évora tomorrow to see whether he can make progress on actually getting it
- this song, love it