A Chance to Make Things Better

“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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Into this day will come

old friends

and old enemies too

young faces

fresh and alive

and faces ravaged by time

or illness

or addiction

there will be moments of laughter

and perhaps some tears

there will comfortable times

of connecting and sharing

and moments

when I am alone in a crowd

into this day will come many

precious souls

and I will have choices

to wound or heal

exclude or include

to accept or reject,

hate or love

help me

O Sacred One

to choose

love

and life