Today I was thinking about zeal, an old fashioned word for enthusiasm. I find it is something that very much ebbs and flows in me, especially around this time of year. It reminded me of the seal I saw, earlier in the year on the beach between Golspie and Brora, on the North East Coast of Scotland, on the End to End.
O balancing seal,
You balance, banana like,
Your shapely form
Enjoying the waves and tides.
O balancing seal,
You incarnate the possibility
Of a life lived in balance
With the environment.
O balancing seal,
Lend me your zeal
For the Balanced Life,
Giving Glory to God.
JAL 21.12.2019 Winter Solstice