How are you showing up in the world today?
Intermittently, like misting rain?
Softly retreating, sun in the clouds?
Do you show up with anger,
and is it even the time?
Do you show up at all?
Do you show up when
you hear the call?
For others?
For yourself?
Come through,
clear and consistent,
be seen.
Be where you are.
It beats being
nowhere at all.
Anxiety starts with "what ifs"--
but dreams start with "what if," too.
and how you end that sentence
is entirely up to you.
What if things were better?
What if they already were good--
what if you started off grateful,
and the universe understood?
What if your prayer was preparation
and your mind could do the rest?
What if you woke up each day
knowing you were blessed?
What if you were fully present
and finally awake?
Maybe that's all you need
and all that it would take.
"God is in charge"
was the affirmation, "So be not afraid."
And while he wrote it
a baby was born with a tumor,
a thousand people died of preventable
causes, flies surrounded
a starving child,
prisoners sat with faint hope
of seeing freedom,
a wife was beaten while her children
watched and
dozens of judges took
millions of dollars
in bribes.
If I believed in the
first line of this poem,
what would I dare to do about the rest?
What could I do even now?
Job once was asked where he was
while Earth and Heaven were created,
while he sat on a pile, bereft
and blighted.
We all have questions,
don't we?
