Self Portrait-

It doesn’t interest me if there is one God

or many gods.

I want to know if you belong or feel

abandoned,

if you can know despair or see it in others.

I want to know

if you are prepared to live in the world

with its harsh need

to change you. If you can look back

with firm eyes,

saying this is where I stand. I want to know

if you know

how to melt into that fierce heat of living,

falling toward

the center of your longing. I want to know

if you are willing

to live, day by day, with the consequence of love

and the bitter

unwanted passion of your sure defeat.

I have heard, in that fierce embrace,

even the gods speak of God.

~David Whyte

forgiveness abounds in our hearts….

inquiry for today~ keep showing up….that’s it….

where there is peace…..

Grateful eyes look at each thing

as if they had never seen it before

and caress it as if they would never see it again.

~Brother David Steindl Rast