Presents

A. Unabashed Pacifist:


Whoever says peace is boring isn’t paying attention - and lacks both imagination and compassion.


B. Unabashed Christian:
Holy One,
I lift my eyes to the hills because it is a natural impulse, instinctive – like looking to you.
Amen


C. Unquoting Jesus:
“Here, Peter, try on these red shoes. I want to see how they look on you. Chic, very chic. But not very practical for fishing.”
[No, He didn't say it, but I think it would have been in His version of Common Sense]



D. Blog: Happy Birthday


Birthday Present

What to do for a birthday present?
I would like to toy with the words:
be present on the day of birth,
present the birthed one to the day,
make the day of birth a present,
move the birth into the present day.
They all contain a playful gift, I think.

But our feelings betray us on the occasion.
Too full, too many, too stirred.
Laughter helps defuse the reminders of expanding past
and shrinking future. Awful day…
Maybe some thing or celebration
wraps that anxiety, hides it in smiling bow.
Or not. Best hope a notion to seize the day.

Tears of joy we also quell, and do so, sadly.
For this one, unique in all of time and space,
shares the spark of life with me. We are
together blessed by this.
Fully present, can we be, to an awe-full day?