Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care.

Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care.  You don’t have to fix it!

                                           Laura Berman Fortand, The Little Book of Meaning, p. 45

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I admit it

I almost always want to fix “it”

Whatever it is.

A hurt feeling

A fragmented faith

A damaged relationship

An unquiet mind

Or just a simple matter of logistics

It doesn’t matter what the problem is,

It seems there is a side of me

That thinks it is my job to fix it.

To sooth the feeling

Restore the faith

Repair the relationship

Ease the mind

Or find an easier better way to do things

As if !

I can only fix myself

And even that is questionable

And even if I could fix others (I can’t)

Most of the time it is really up to them

And the Sacred One

No, if I really want to help

It is generally better to

Just listen. Just be. Just witness. Just care