Fire

Fire
What makes a fire burn 
is space between the logs,
a breathing space.
Too much of a good thing,
too many logs packed in too tight
can douse the flames
almost as surely
as a pail of water would.

So building fires
requires attention
to the spaces in between
as much as the wood.

When we are able to build
open spaces
in the same way 
we have learned
to pile on the logs,
then we can come to see how 
it is fuel, and absence of the fuel together,
that make fire possible.

We only need to lay a log
lightly from time to time.
A fire
grows
simply because there is space there,
with openings in which the flame
that knows just how it wants to burn
can find its way.

The Sea Accepts All Rivers
by Judy Sorum Brown

Passion burns as if a fire. 
We need the air and space to grow.
Rest and be at Peace.
M.Miller