A bit of wisdom

Here´s this poem by Rilke that´s been up at my desk since January. Don´t know if I´ve posted it already, but it´s worth a repost de todas maneras.

I am, you anxious one.

Don´t you sense me, ready to break
into being at your touch?
My murmurings surround you like shadowy wings.
Can´t you see me standing before you
Cloaked in stillness?
Hasn´t my longing ripened in you from the beginning
as fruit ripens on a branch?

I am the dream you are dreaming
When you want to awaken, I am that wanting:
I grow strong in the beauty you behold.
And with the silence of stars I enfold
your cities made by time.

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Also, I´ve had this verse (my favorite) up:

"Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3:12-14
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Finally, while in Antigua this past Saturday, Kim and I ate at La Fonda de la Calle Real. They´ve got great Guatemalan food and dichos, or sayings, painted all over the place. This one must have been put up for me at just the right moment. Definitely a lesson learned over the last several months: