This is the day

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This is the day when things change for the better

When the healing begins

When hope returns like a long-lost friend.

 

This is the day when peace breaks out

When people start coming to a reasonable compromise

When common sense and the common good

Finally get their chance to be heard

 

This is the day when the breakthrough happens

When old hearts become young again

When laughter can be heard once more

 

Of all the days when miracles can start to happen

When love can start to grow

When your life can be touched by a great blessing

Why not now, why not here, why not this day?

          Steven Charleston

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Can this be the day?

When things change?

When hope rises?

 

How does that happen, in times like these?

How does that happen as hate rises

And anger and resentment fuels violence

And greedy souls abandon people for profit.

 

How does it happen?

My soul screams the question

 

And then the One who dwells in me

And the One in whom I dwell

Whispers

 

Open to Love

Allow love in

Let it fill you to overflowing

 

And then leak Love

 

And even if the world around you

Is chaos

There will be love

And peace

And joy

And hope

 

In your soul

 

“Though outwardly we are wasting away,

 Yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day”

 

Miracles happen all around us – sometimes

But the biggest miracles happen

Within

 

The world may not change much

People will still vote for the unworthy

The rich will still get richer, and the poor will get poorer

Cancer will still show up

An uninvited guest

 

But we will be changed

And our relationship to chaos, changed

And our perspective, changed

And our responses, changed

 

And this will be the day

Here and now