THE SHELL OF BELIEFS

Mary F. C. PrattContemplative

The chambered nautilus expands, seals off each outgrown space, and yet the empty rooms remain as spiraled witness to the change.

The growing shell is not a burden to the wanderer inside who uses it to stay afloat, and when it’s time, to dive.

And thus may we use all we’ve known and all that we’ve believed to navigate the sea we’re in as long as we’re alive.

Mary F. C. Pratt

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