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13. Saint Gobnait

On the tiny limestone island
an angel comes to Gobnait
in a dream, disrupting all her plans,
and sends her in search of nine white deer.

She wanders for miles across the
sea and land until then at last
they appear but rather than
running straight towards them

she kneels down upon the wet ground,
sits in silence and waits
lets their long legs approach around her,
curious noses sniff her hair.

Breathing slowly, she slides back
into the grass and clover and knows
nothing surpasses this moment,
of heaven hoof and dew.

Is there a place for us,
where we no longer yearn to be always elsewhere?
Always elsewhere?
Where our work is to simply soften and
wait, attend to what’s at hand.

She smiles as bees gather eagerly
around her, wings humming softly,
humming softly
as they collect essence from the wildflowers,
weaving labor into gold.

---Christine Valters Paintner & Simon DeVoil

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from Earth, Our Original Monastery: Singing Our Way to the Sacred, released April 8, 2020
Saint Gobnait
Music by Simon de Voil / Text by Christine Valters Paintner.
© (p) 2019 www.simondevoil.com

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