The Girl Who Loved...

There was a girl who loved a flower...

and when it bloomed,

she threw her arms wide open

and knelt before it.

The girl continued to love,

and to learn.

Until one day, she loved enough

to love a pepper plant.

She threw her arms wide open and knelt before it.

And she shared its fruit with a friend nearby.

And the girl continued to love

and to learn.

Until one day, she loved enough

to love a towering evergreen tree.

She threw her arms wide open and knelt before it.

And she shared it's branches with their pungent scent

Hanging them over her lintel

blessing all who crossed her home's threshold.

Then girl continued to love and to learn.

Until one day, she loved enough

to love a sunrise sky.

She threw her arms wide open, spun in circles and knelt before it.

And her face shone so bright when she lifted it

reflecting those pinks, golds and lavenders

That all who saw her were blessed.

The Girl continued to love and to learn.

Until one day, she loved enough

to love a universe.

She threw her arms wide open, spun in circles and knelt before it.

And she drew that universe into her very womb

for safe-keeping.

But no one saw her do it.

At the last, there was a Girl who continued to love and to learn.

Until one day, she loved enough

to love the One large enough to roll that universe up like a scroll

and stick it in His pocket.

But few were blessed.

"You can not love something so abstract. So incomprehensible...

her sanity is gone, for she loves an illusion."

But the girl just smiled.

She knew they hadn't seen the way of it...

...that first, she'd loved a flower.