Choose

Choose to do something nice
if you do anything at all.
Kindness is like an armful
of daisies or dandelions in the fist
of a child.

Pray for healing
and for the courage to say no.
Suffering is part of being in these bodies,
and we must learn to gently apply salves
to all the wounds that damage us every day.

I want to be meek as a morning
rising from the horizon.
Gold and glory are as simple as light
and we blink at the beauty of a new day.

Love one another.
Have I mentioned, love one another?

Love with your heart pressed to the earth
and you hear the gurgling belly of life
lift from the ashes and dirt
into the cells that can't help
but find one another in a crowd of knowing God.