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In honor of lent, my ?she-clergy? friend Carmen who is embarking on a new adventure in North Carolina and who reminded me of this beloved poem (an-american-vicar.blogspot.com) ? and in honor of all things sensual, passionate and deeply right ?

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred mles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.? Meanwhile the world goes on.? Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscape, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting ? over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Today ? each day ? let yourself live deeply into the vibrancy of life brimming all around you.

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Tina Schermer Sellers is a recognized scholar in the integration of spirituality into a multitude of areas represented in family and career life. As a behavioral scientist, licensed family therapist, medical family therapist, and certified sex therapist, she specializes in helping to craft relationships, organizations and lives that flourish. In the area of sexuality, Tina has spent a career helping people discover what culture has failed to teach them about their bodies, their hearts, their capacity for intimacy and their erotic potential. This entry was posted in spirituality and tagged abundance, body, delight, desire, intention, joy, life, love, mindfulness, mystery, pleasure, sensuality, Tina Schermer Sellers. Bookmark the permalink.

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