You need not do a damn thing....

I have my little morning ritual

Every morning I get up, get a cup of coffee

and do four things

 

I read something from one of my theology or psychology books

I read through the news (today it got my spirit boiling)

I read my favorite comics on the internet (Yay, non sequitur)

and...

I read Hafiz.  Who is crazy, and irreverent, and brilliant.

 

Today's poem started with the person talking to another, I think God

 

"Tell me, love, what I need right now so that I might sing, and be alive, as my every cell craves.

Tell me, dear, what I need right now, but in a manner I won't soon forget....."

 

As the poem goes God pulls out a drum and belts out a tune.

The poem ends this way.  "Nothing to follow.. for I will move you.  

You need not do a damn thing... just laugh."

 

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This morning Lord

I looked toward the day

and frankly, I'm a little tired

A little overwhelmed

 

There are so many hurts

So many people

So many needs

So many things to 

 

And frankly God, I'm not really up to it.

I don't have enough energy

Not enough love

Not enough wisdom

Not enough skill

 

Yes, God, right now it feels as if I am not enough

 

But you have always told me to ask for what I need

Lord, I need you

Lord I need your love

Lord, I need to learn to receive

 

Pull out your drum Lord

help me to dance

and remind me

that all I have to do is open wide

and recieve

and laugh