attentively

stroked by the air

sit straight

in the chair

attentively

wait 

in your void

with hope

silently say

"Expectation"

let Empty hold you

lightly in this space

before shifting

attentively

for "NOW"

as a sudden gift

arrives as Light

beyond which

you were sitting

give thanks

moving over

attentively

*Thoughts of Theodore L. Prescott:

-...the deliberation within our soul to intercourse with the world must be the first and primary broader crossing.  You simply cannot get anywhere without passing through that terrain.  That movement is inevitable for life to proceed, and is often spiritual.  When God speaks to us, he moves us. But I suspect that you also may have experienced the terror of being stuck, and of not being able to move, even when you deeply desire to press on.  So this movement is neither automatic nor certain.

The passage  from insight to action is always incomplete, and bear unexpected results.  Pope John Paul II alludes to this in his 1999 letter too artists.  He says:

     All artists experience the unbridgeable gap which lies between the work of their hands...and the          dazzling perfection of beauty glimpsed in the ardor of the creative moment.... Their creating is no        more than a glimmer of the splendor which flared for a moment before the eyes of their spirit.

So even when we have the ability to move from interior perception to artistic form, what we make bears only a passing resemblance to what we perceived within.  Disappointment has been the downfall of many young artists, and some older ones, too.