use without abuse employ without exploiting i support justice and serve mercy i embrace sacrifice and abandon selfishness without doubt, i leap with faith with hope i relieve despair light overpowers darkness forgiveness overturns guilt healing overwhelms injury happiness overcomes sadness to give undoes the dullness of apathy to listen brings the courage of telepathyContinue reading “Instrument”
Category Archives: Companion
Counted
We are not a melting pot We are a salad It is impossible to not have biases, prejudice creates walls without bridges – discounted persons live in exclusion. Separate but equal is an illusion, lip service is a pretend opening – not excluded persons live in seclusion. Walk the walk makes real talk the talk,Continue reading “Counted”
Cultivate
There are times to produce and there are times to consume. I am called to balance both I cannot just create, I cannot just devour, the fruit is not the harvest. Neither needs nor wants make it – to give and give harms, to take and take hurts, the fruit is to cultivate. There areContinue reading “Cultivate”
Better Angels of Our Nature
the delusion of ownership can cripple receiving and sharing is empowering Who? kindness and gentleness with each other as we walk hand-in-hand and shoulder-to-shoulder What? spiritual gifts are not accumulated possession is zero tenths of the New law When? preparation is always in all ways believing my opportunity will come Why? to have everlastingContinue reading “Better Angels of Our Nature”
Helper (Psalm 72)
Endow our leaders with your justice, O God, our children with your righteousness. Judge your people in righteousness, and give the weak and vulnerable justice. Bestow on us the majesty of the mountains, and the fruition of the orchards. Defend the sick and wounded, and help our needy children Her radianceContinue reading “Helper (Psalm 72)”
Alone Together
This new normal does not resemble normal at all, it is abnormal. We have been changed and the way is different Forced to be separate, I long to comingle. The stress of all alone, makes me treasure being together. I am not alone, and we are not together. A common threat, creates unique responses. MyContinue reading “Alone Together”
Mother (Psalm 88 – 2)
Dear Mother, hold me, I feel like I am all alone. I pray that you will embrace me; please turn to me, listen to my cry. For my soul is full of trouble and my life is seemingly hopeless I am in the Pit; I have lost my strength. I am weak and vulnerable,Continue reading “Mother (Psalm 88 – 2)”
Kindness (Psalm 46)
Our God is our refuge and strength, present to us in time of trouble. Therefore we will not abide in the House of Fear, though our minds be rattled though our hearts quake, though we be shaken to the core, There is a stream from which we may drink, We may sip and gulp withContinue reading “Kindness (Psalm 46)”
Yearn (Psalm 63)
O God, my Mother, my heart yearns for you; my soul desires you, my body longs for you, I am in a dry and dreary land where there is no water. I am still in your presence, though Embrace me and give me peace and equanimity. Your love is better than life, I sing inContinue reading “Yearn (Psalm 63)”
Don Kuhn
We met at the corner and Don said “let’s go this way” – on the labyrinth walk Don mastered measured response. Our paths crisscrossed often often when I reversed course – calm in adversity Don had been there and done that. In the labyrinth, the way is clear and undefined – a carefulContinue reading “Don Kuhn”
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