IT BENEFITS ALL

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

I want to free what waits within me

so that what no one has dared to wish for

may for once spring clear

without my contriving.

If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,

but this is what I need to say.

May what I do flow from me like a river,

no forcing and no holding back,

the way it is with children.

Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,

these deepening tides moving out, returning,

I will sing you as no one ever has,

streaming through widening channels

into the open sea.

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s "Book of Hours: Love Poems to God" 

(Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)

[Lifted entirely from Fr. Richard Rohr's "Daily Meditations," May 24, 2014.]

My take: Rilke's poem is a wondrous description of what happens when we  detach from our self-determined objectives...our wishes, our wants, our desires...and let the will of God within us...our perfected good...flow forth. It can't but benefit all.

Thank you.