Jerry Grantner, OFM

Brother Jerry is Director of Franciscan Formation in San Antonio

RiverStone
The River of Life
Dances with delight
Around a stable stone
Within its flow

Form within the formless
Time within the timeless
Stillness within the motion
A drop within the Ocean

From the interrelated rhythm
Of action and contemplation
Yin and Yang find a balance
In swirling eddies of silence

Fluid yields to firm
But soft overcomes solid
As a stony heart crumbles
And boulders turn into pebbles

Rock and river harmonize
As currents carve and hone
To shape and polish and beautify
A humble river stone