that feel

Tom Waits has a song,

"That Feel"

he says,

"You can pawn your watch and chain,

but not that feel

You can throw it off a bridge
You can lose it in the fire
You can leave it at the altar
But it will make you out a liar"

"that feel" is the unexplainable grace that keeps us reaching beyond ourselves

sometimes i lose it

i get mired down in the details

the ego

the tree keeps me from the forest

the world becomes too much about me

that's when i lose "that feel"

fighting to keep it is a never ending battle,

a narrow road

our Beloved never lost it while He roamed this earth

"that feel" was to be in the Father

Mary never lost "that feel",

the scripture says she was "full of grace"

St. Paul, the poet, never lost it,

and he teaches us all to keep running after it

Beethoven, Rilke, Van Gogh,

St. Francis, G.K. Chesterton, St. Pio,

Mother Teresa, Rich Mullins

all pleading with the world,

"don't lose that feel"

 

wkm