Briathar / Logos

Briathar

Cén fáth iontas a dhéanamh de na héisc is na builíní?
Abair na focail chearta agus leathfaidh an fíon.
Abair le grá iad
Agus mothaigh fiántas an ghrá sin
Agus mothaigh riachtanas an ghrá sin
Agus pléascfaidh na héisc ina mílte.
Samhlaigh É, ag caint,
Agus ná buair do cheann faoina bhfuil ann,
Faoin rud is léir ná faoin mistéir.
Má bhíse ann ba iad na nithe sin go léir iad.
Samhlaigh é agus is iad na nithe sin go léir iad.
Ith, ól, is bí sona.
Glac leis an míorúilt.
Glac chomh maith le gach focal labhartha
A labhartar le teann grá.

Logos

Why wonder about the loaves and the fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love
and the felt ferocity of that love
and the felt necessity of that love,
the fish explode into the many.
Imagine him, speaking,
and don't worry about what is reality,
or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it was all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy.
Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word
spoken with love.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(Why I Wake Early)