Celtic Lent Day 7

The Bright Field
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying

on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.
R. S. Thomas.

I think what R.S. Thomas' poem speaks of are those brief moments when we feel transcendent - connected to the divine, something outside of ourselves and much bigger than ourselves. Once you've felt that you want it to last forever.
Not hurrying to the future or hankering after the past means we must live in the here and now, the divine is in the here and now but like Moses we need to turn towards it and then have the curiosity to pursue it.

Scripture
Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.’
Exodus 3.1-3