'Poem for the week' -- "Creative Joy":
God of cuttlefish and crystal caverns,
who formed the farthest reaches of the cosmos
and the yet-unreached depths of the sea,
whose creative joy is manifest in our ongoing discovery
of creatures and places and workings
in our own bodies, in our world and beyond it—
Help me to believe that patience isn’t torturous
but to be inhabited with delight,
knowing that you love to surprise
and that my future is threaded with the same playful love
that gave birth to axolotls and the grand canyon and the DNA double-helix.
When you ask or otherwise expect me to wait,
may I do so like a child on the eve of Christmas:
expecting nothing other than joy
and your heart brimming with the sight of your own patience fulfilled.
-- Emily Cash, Driftwood Prayers