it’s not in belief that faith succeeds, but in being
moved by beings one sees are being moved
by faithful arcs: the sun and moon are proved
faithful in their arcs. are we agreeing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
who is moving in these faithful arcs?
whose business is in preparing to meet the moon?
who is leaving breakfast far too soon,
to move some dollars to some oligarchs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
being moved by faith, one moves more slowly;
responds more quickly to the moment’s need\u2013
without a thought of whether the need is holy,
or whether one is doing a holy deed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
faith’s beyond belief: and being wholly
present frees the faithful to succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
it’s not in belief that faith succeeds, but in beingmoved by beings one sees are being movedby faithful arcs: the sun and moon are provedfaithful in their arcs. are we agreeing? who is moving in these faithful arcs?whose business is in preparing to meet the moon?who is leaving breakfast far too soon,to move some dollars…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,28,16,15,9,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-didactics","category-ethos","category-poem","category-politics","category-reflection","category-zen","hs-poem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-93","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":592,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/everything-changes\/","url_meta":{"origin":561,"position":0},"title":"everything changes","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"August 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"My hut has a dirt floor, basically,(as I stopped runningthe vacuumat some point in recent time). 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