Rebecca Parker

poem box

Dec 30

Rebecca Parker (1953- ) is an ordained United Methodist minister in dual fellowship with the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Perhaps

for a moment

the typewriters will stop clicking,

the wheels stop rolling

the computers desist from computing,

and a hush will fall over the city.

For an instant, in the stillness,

the chiming of the celestial spheres will be heard

as earth hangs poised

in the crystalline darkness, and then

gracefully

tilts.

Let there be a season

when holiness is heard, and

the splendor of living is revealed.

Stunned to stillness by beauty

we remember who we are and why we are here.

Let this be the time

we wake to life,

like spring wakes, in the moment

of winter solstice.

— Rebecca Parker from ‘Winter Solstice’

Bert Meyers