a community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives.  it is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.  

- wendell berry

again and again the two of us walk out together

under the ancient trees,

lie down again and again

among the flowers, face to face with the sky.

-rilke

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. 

Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.

And without feet I can make my way to you,

without a mouth I can swear your name.

Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you

with my heart as with a hand.

Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. 

And if you consume my brain with fire, 

I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood. 

- Rilke

when i applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night, then i saw all the world of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun.  for though a man labors to discover it, yet he will not find it; moreover, though a wise man attempts to know it, he will not be able to find it.  for i considered all this in my heart, so that i would declare it all: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God.

ecclesiastes 8:16-9:1.

this is where i will write.  

about beautiful things. 

about love.

about God.

about anything and everything.

lord, i give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life.  I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever.  Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit.  Use me as Thou wilt, send me where Thou wilt, work out Thy whole will in my life and any cost, no and forever.