{"id":127,"date":"2009-08-20T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourdailyspiritualstimulus\/2009\/08\/the-journey-by-mary-oliver.html"},"modified":"2009-08-20T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T18:08:30","slug":"the-journey-by-mary-oliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourdailyspiritualstimulus\/2009\/08\/the-journey-by-mary-oliver.html","title":{"rendered":"A Powerful Message: The Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Journey<\/font>
\nBy Mary Oliver<\/p>\n

One day you finally knew
\nwhat you had to do, and began,
\nthough the voices around you
\nkept shouting their bad advice-
\nthough the whole house
\nbegan to tremble and you felt the old tug
\nat your ankles.
\n“Mend my Life!” each voice cried.<\/p>\n

But you didn’t stop.<\/p>\n

You knew what you had to do,
\nthough the wind pried
\nwith its stiff fingers
\nat the very foundations,
\nthough their melancholy
\nwas terrible.
\nlt was already late enough,
\nand a wild night,
\nand the road full of fallen
\nbranches and stones.
\nBut little by little,
\nas you left their voices behind,
\nthe stars began to burn
\nthrough the sheets of clouds,
\nand there was a new voice
\nwhich you slowly
\nrecognized as your own,
\nthat kept you company
\nas you strode deeper and deeper
\ninto the world,
\ndetermined to do the only thing you could do-
\ndetermined to save
\nthe only life that you could save. <\/p>\n

~ Mary Oliver<\/font>
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