<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); line-height: 24.375px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The Ground I Stand On Is Holy</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); line-height: 24.375px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I do not have to go<br class="">To Sacred Places<br class="">In far-off lands,<br class="">The ground I stand on is holy.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); line-height: 24.375px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Here, in this little garden<br class="">I tend<br class="">My pilgrimage ends.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); line-height: 24.375px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">The wild honeybees<br class="">The hummingbird moths<br class="">The flickering fireflies at dusk<br class="">are a microcosm<br class="">Of The Universe.<br class="">Each seed that grows<br class="">Each spade of soil<br class="">is full of miracles.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); line-height: 24.375px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">And I toil and sweat<br class="">And watch and wonder<br class="">And am full of love<br class="">Living in place –<br class="">In this place<br class="">For truth and beauty Dwell here.</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(55, 55, 55); line-height: 24.375px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Mary de La Valette</p></body></html>