Choices

“Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.”

― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

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it is Genesis every morning

as out of the darkness come light

and the earth stirs

shrugging off its stupor

the birds of the air

soar and float

effortlessly on the wind

the fish in the winding waters

that flow

through a sea of grass

lurk in deep cool pools

the deer bound through the grass

to the cover of the trees

where the denizens of the forest

linger in the shade

and I too rise

into this paradise

and wander through the garden

where voices whisper and

choices await

Adam’s dilemma

power or servanthood

grasping or giving

judgment or compassion

hating or loving

and with each choice

in ways sometime large

sometimes small

a chance

to walk in the garden again

in the cool of the day