The Gift
The fruitfulness of a gift is the only gratitude for the gift— Meister Eckhart
The gift was given, this we know,
after bursting from a hen’s egg—the creator gave it after opening a pea pod—the creator gave it after shaping life from the dust of the earth— the creator gave it.
The gift was given, so some say, and we came out of the wind cave with the prairie dogs, the buffalo, the elk, the deer.
The time was ready, so we came out fashioned from this earth, for this earth, as a gift to this earth so we might give back the fruit of love for this earth.
Stephen Shick, Be the Change