Fortune for the Day – “Turn your face to the sun, and the shadows fall behind you.” – Maori proverb
This is all just so surreal. I am praying that this is all that it is for you, my readers and friends – surreal . . . but, not tragic. I admit, I’m a little bit rattled. I’ve lost my footing, my mojo, my ease of words, just a little bit. All of this will come back: my footing, my mojo, my ease of expression. It will come back for me and it will come back for the world. We will overcome this together. We’ve heard the horror stories of people beating each other up for toilet paper, but more so, the beautiful side of the human spirit is seen in the Italians singing at the same time, every night from their windows and the Spaniards, clapping and praising for their health workers every night and people getting groceries for their elderly neighbors. I want to remain being part of the beautiful side of all this. I don’t want to succumb to my darker sides such as fear, panic, greed, and self-centeredness. The permission to really rest, to really take in and to appreciate nature, to feel the security and the comfort of a full house of family, again, are the gifts that are coming from this otherwise, frightening and sometimes, overwhelming experience. Here’s my poem for the day, friends. New readers, please look at previous Sunday posts for more poetry and please use this blog, as a safe, serene spot, to post and to share your beautiful poems.
Simple Lesson
Let me learn the lessons.
Let this worldly pause, be a time of reflection.
Let me use this time to really notice all that really matters.
Let me truly savor this hiatus which I always claim to be wishing for.
God has pushed the Pause button.
I can fight against it, like a tired, hysterical child,
Or I can take in the lessons, like an earnest student of Life.
Either way, this class will wrap up and the only thing left of it,
will be what I attained from it.
If I gather everything that I can from this experience,
It will be a beautiful addition, to my basket of nourishment,
That basket which I carry with me, throughout my daily living.
Let this experience help me to strengthen and to fortify my basket,
And prune from it, the things that are no longer necessary,
the things that have been weighing me down, without me even noticing.
Let me find the gifts of this experience and to focus on these gifts,
Because the focus on the gifts, is what gives to me,
my serenity, my gratefulness, my calm and my peace.
Perhaps the lesson is a much simpler one than I ever thought it to be.
Dare I say, thank you?