“Sister Mahala, Brother Weeps says that to become human and holy we must endure many trials, experience much suffering, undergo failures and unravelings, even humiliations,” said a young man.

“That’s true,” said Sister Mahala, “many stumbles, tumbles, and falls.’

“Can you show us another way?” asked the man.

“To start a fire you first strike steel against a piece of flint to make a spark and a pearl can only become a pearl by friction as well,” said Sister Mahala. “And there’s the rub.”

~ Dan Miller, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. © 2017

from book-in-progress titled BOOK OF CAIRNS: Stacked Stones to Find Our Way OR The Little Wisdom of Brother Weeps and Sister Mahala