<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">God speaks to each of us as he makes us,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">then walks with us silently out of the night.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">These are words we dimly hear:</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">You, sent out beyond your recall,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">go to the limits of your longing.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Embody me.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Flare up like flame</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> and make big shadows I can move in.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Just keep going. No feeling is final.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Don't let yourself lose me.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Nearby is the country they call life.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> You will know it by its seriousnes.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> Give me your hand.</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Rainer Maria Rilke </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)</div></div></body></html>