You carry
All the ingredients
To turn your life into a nightmare
Don’t mix them…
You carry all the ingredients
To turn your existence into joy,
Mix them, mix
Them!
Hafiz ala
Daniel Landinsky
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We are not helpless
Ever
We do not have to be tossed and blown
By every new headline
Every painful setback
Every new abuse of power
Every new lie (Ephesians 4)
We can be victims
If we want
We can carry darkness
Embrace ignorance
We can harden our hearts
So there is no longer room
For The Gift
The Presence
We can stuff our souls with resentment,
Anger, hate, and greed
We can lust for power
We can spawn nightmares,
Which fill our souls with darkness and chaos
Pushing us to punish, harm, and reject
Which fill our lives
With every kind of violence
Imaginable
But all the ingredients are there
For joy
Love, compassion, forgiveness, generosity
Fueled by the Spirit
Can intoxicate us
Until we dance with abandon
Our feet moving to the sound of
Gratitude and expectation
Our hearts singing the song of love
Our eyes seeing all the good gifts
That surround us
Until we live joy
We carry within us
All the ingredients we need
Mix them! Mix them!
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