sinlessness

sinlessness
allows the wind
to catch my sail
and blow me in any direction

there is no catching
on jagged rocks

no dragging of anchor or feet

sinlessness is without friction

holding on to nothing

i am free to serve

free to be directed,
free to be moved

without a moment's hesitation

free to receive all guests

insight

ancient wisdom,
insight:

beauty is in the eye
of the beholder

friend/enemy
in the eye of the beholder

rich/poor
have/have not
danger/safety
gratitude/depravity

in the eye of the beholder

restitution/destitution,
prostitution
or labor of love,

all sight,
internal

insight

rocks my world

broken bones
or
broken beliefs,
broken dreams,
broken myths

the Eye of the beholder,
Everything
literally

what do you see?
what do you want to see?

not a person

Love is a chameleon,

no color, shape, size or decibel
She won't show up as

just so you will open your door

not a person,
just the Universe/Love,
shimmering

gifted

there is nothing you must do to become
what you are

the rose needs no education
to bloom

what lies do we teach?

what shoulds?

to this flower...

this brilliant sunbeam

who is lit within

in midsentence

in midsentence
he dropped his "r"

there was no more
flock of geese needed

no more time
needed

restitution
restituted

the daylilies
never had committed a crime

the innocent child
laughed to see such a sight

and the mind
did loose the moon

friend

you've been given a blank check,
a blank canvas,
how much is the world worth?

price it,
literally

how much would you have to pay
for all these trees,
mountains,
sky
airplanes
people
apples
lakes
rivers
grass
bears
music?

how much would you pay
for the gift of seeing!
hearing
tasting
smelling?

and you cry "not enough!"
what blindness is this!

not enough
not enough

you pay nothing!
everything is given freely.

how much gratitude?
for even one thing...

thank you, car...
thank you, bike....sidewalk...wind...
thank you, computer...
friend,
friend,
friend...

and I get to do what I do...
I get to facilitate,
to witness,
to sing,
to dance,
to play,
to just be,
to experience gratitude

grace,
everything
given

1%

i am
everyone i see,
everyone i think about.

i am the 99%
i am the 1%
and the 1/10th of 1%.

I am every political party.

Can i understand?

What would i have to be believing
to show up that way?

What would i have to be believing
to go to war?

What kind of camouflage do i wear?

If you "win",
you also "lose".
Every side is yours.

You can only defeat yourself.

You can never defeat your Self.

"If Christ appeared to you in all His glory,
asking you but this:

Choose once again
if you would take your place
among the saviors of the world,
or would remain in hell,
and hold your brothers there."

What would you be?

"For He has come,
and He is asking this."

There is no one who is not you.
How would you treat your very Self?