If God Wills

Some people work and become wealthy

Others do the same and remain poor

Marriage fills one with energy,

And other it drains.

Don’t trust ways, they change.

A means flails about like a donkey’s tail.

Always add the gratitude clause

To any sense, if God wills,

Then go….

                                Rumi, Quoted by Jack Kornfield, “A Path With a Heart” p.33

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I’d like to think I have some

vague

clue

about what is going on

I don’t

not even close

why people who are cruel and greedy

and bigoted prosper

I will never understand

why good people suffer

and die

and live in poverty

with their glad and generous hearts

disturbs my soul

but so it is

and so it has been

the Bible is a morass

of contradictions

that can be used to promote

both cruelty and compassion

exclusion and inclusion

blessings and curses

go figure

all I can do

is the best that I can do

all I can do is go deep

not into what are ultimately human words and rules

but into the depths of my soul

where the Sacred lives

and brings alive

my heart

my mind

where Spirit enlivens and informs

all I can do is put one foot in front of the other

live one action at a time

and

say

“if God wills”

Believing the Sacred will honor

and use

my heartfelt

intentions

for

good