I Believe

There is meaning to be found in suffering, as hard as that may seem in the darkest times.

A chance to sit alone and together as we wait for the sunrise - and share things we all know.

We are all in this together

There is no other

There is no out there

There is only this...

here

now

listen carefully and you will hear it

watch closely and you will see it

smell it, taste it, feel it

in each instant,

just in that moment, but now it's gone and we live into memory

We share more, that is the same, than anything that makes us different from one another

there is no easy way out

we find our own innate goodness in love and care and compassion

We learn what is most valuable - is what is in most short supply

The power of simple human kindness

and find redemption and love and an easy way out

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When I die

and if there is one thing God is upset with me for

it will not be that I wasn't more like God

but that I wasn't more like Jack

live your one wild and precious life

it will make God smile