This is one of my favorite poems.
And my favorite bit in the poem is:
“Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way…”
And the word I’ve wondered the most about in that line is
Abandon.
Does it mean “with abandon,” like how a child engages a beloved task?
Or is there an actual abandoning of something non-essential? A relinquishing?
Perhaps both.
And if so: What must we relinquish to live into our vocations with abandon?
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