Consider the lilacs!

“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.”

― Anne Lamott

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I choose

not to be grim

I choose this day

not to put my energy into whatever is wrong

a friend long bald

used to joke that aging men only had so much testosterone

and if I wanted to waste mine growing hair

well, that was ok with him

there is only so much time

only so much energy

I am not going to spend mine

focusing on,

carrying,

failure

frustrations

grudges

anger

I am not going to spend it

“fighting sin”

in my life

or anyone else’s

I want to be light enough to dance

joyful enough to smile -- and mean it

I want to be full enough

of the sacred

to live it

to be it

the lilac blooms on the table

do not fight to be lilacs

they are so what they are

they just sit there

beautiful

fragrant

I want to be like them