Love Frees

I am posting this just because I like it!

All day long a little burro labors,
sometimes
with heavy loads on her back
and sometimes just with worries
about things that bother only burros.

And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting
than physical labor.

Once in a while a kind monk comes
to her stable and brings
a pear, but more
than that,

he looks into the burro’s eyes and touches her ears
and for a few seconds the burro is free
and even seems to laugh,

because love does
that.

Love frees.

(by Meister Eckhart, courtesy of the Joan Chittister Newsletter)