You are not your own

The sacred text is inviting you slowly, little by little, into a very different sense of who you are: You are not your own. Your life is not about you; you are about Life! You are gradually "pruned" as a separate vine and re-grafted to the Great Vine of life and love and God. Once you are consciously reconnected to the Source, your life will bear much fruit for the world (John 15:1-5).

                                                                                      Richard Rohr, Blog 3.6.16

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sometimes

I want to crawl inside my own skin

I don’t want to see

or feel

I want to be able to walk past that man on the sidewalk

and not worry

not feel sad

“Hey mister, you look like a politician!  Who you going to vote for, yourself?

but the image

and the voice linger

as does the sadness

this is what happens

when one realizes there is no life

alone

we are connected

attached to the Sacred

grafted in

and thus attached too

to every other person

even that guy on the street in Vegas