"Woman Sweeping Floor, Darkness Growing

The poem today was really long, so I'm not writing it all out this time.

The introduction says, "The real aim is not to see God in all things, it is that God, through us, should see the things that we see."
- Simone Weil

The title is Sheep Fair Day and it starts off with, "I took God with me to the sheep fair..." It follows on with an account of how the author takes God with her through an ordinary day -

"I let God sip tea, boiling hot, from a cup..."

I especially identify with the last paragraph -

"And later again, in the kitchen,
wrung out, at day's ending, and empty,
I showed how it feels
to undo yourself,
to dissolve, and grow age-old, nameless:

woman sweeping a floor, darkness growing."

- Kerry Hardie

It is a great description of how I want to live my life, with God integral to my every action, part of the ordinariness of my day.

Today I spent the day with my brother and sister-in-law and twin nieces (soon to be teenagers) in Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire. I thought it would be easy to get a picture of sheep as it is quite a rural part of the country, but I ended up only going out once to get groceries at the local Co-op store and didn't see any sheep. My brother and s-i-l were both sick with flu so I enjoyed giving massages and aromatherapy and helping out where I could with housework, laundry, dishes, feeding and cleaning up after various pets but I felt the presence of God with me all day in the ordinary activities of life.

This blip is of Rebekah, my niece, sweeping the kitchen floor after David cooked a delicious and nutritious dinner 'at day's ending' with 'darkness growing'. She doesn't like her photo being taken, but agreed to be my model for blip as long as I didn't show her face - hence the headless shot!