what do I seek

In the first chapter of my devotional reading (Sitting Still, by Patricia Hart Clifford), the author poses the question: What do you seek? ... What do I seek in the practice of centering prayer? What do I seek within myself and the world in the way I am living and moving and being? What do I seek in my relationship with God? What do I seek from the me within? What do I seek for the me within?

What do I seek? Peace within myself. ... Yet it doesn't interest me if I find peace, what I really long for is to see, to know, and to be present with what is.

What do I seek? Depth and grounding. ... Yet it doesn't interest me if I find depth and grounding, what I really long for is being a space of healing, for others and for the world.

What do I seek? Health in my body. ... Yet it doesn't interest me if I find health in my body, what I really long for is feeling strength in my body and connectedness to the Holy in it, knowing that body and spirit are truly one.

What do I seek? 

A way of being in the world,

   which brings healing, 

      reveals wholeness, 

         restores hope, 

            glimpses the Holy in all, 

               and honors the divinity within.

What is it you seek?