Beautiful poem spoken by Leighton on Sunday

[Gabrielle Dean]

The Place of Dangerous Clarity - Noel Davis, from Campfire of the Heart

Beware

when you pass through a gate of quiet

and enter into a place of stillness.

Know you are at risk,

that you never re-emerge unscathed. Never!

You may return fierce and hungry for justice, a passionate lover,

a surprise to yourself, a risk taker, seen as a trouble maker. You may

emerge a seeker

seeking ever to open to each moment’s invitation.

You may be invited to be generous with what you most cling

to, bold in ways you have never been,

dared to take that step you have feared the most,

speak out your truth and have it prized or criticised,

live your life the way you have always wanted to

and never dared, say yes to being you.

Know that place of stillness grows an inner trust

and becomes in time a place of dangerous clarity.

Beware !