Genesis 8:9 · World English Bible
but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface of the whole earth. He put out his hand, and took her, and brought her to him into the ship.
The dove is the Spirit seeking a place to settle, and it finds none while the waters still cover everything. The flood is the old confusion not yet drained, the state a person has not yet let subside.
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The dove is the Spirit seeking a place to settle, and it finds none while the waters still cover everything. The flood is the old confusion not yet drained, the state a person has not yet let subside. So the dove returns to the ark. The ark is man himself, the vessel that holds God. Nothing descends and rests until the surface within is calm enough to receive it.
The hand reaching out to draw the dove in is a person taking the assurance back into himself. Every event in a life was planted earlier by an imaginal act, seedtime and harvest running as one unbroken law, so only lovely seeds are worth planting. As the inner waters recede, a new world rises out of the old. The Spirit finally rests when the state a person holds has grown quiet and sure. What settles within is what appears without.
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What is still churning in me that only needs stillness, not another decision?
Muddy water clears when it is left alone. The one who can stay still while things settle sees the whole picture again.
The moon shows up in the pond only after the ripples go flat. Nothing is added, nothing arrives from outside, the surface simply stops shaking.
A mind held steady is like a lamp in a windless place, its flame unflickering. Only such a mind can hold what it has been given.
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