Changing

Changing

Don’t you get bored?
I get asked that all the time
by people who do not understand
how I cannot get bored
when I am in the same place all the time.
I know it looks like the same,
but nothing is ever the same.
We can sit in the same place
and look at the same space
and never see the same thing twice.
We and the world are ever
changing.
The air we breathe is not the same,
it is every changing
with every movement
and gust of wind.
The land is not the same.
I see the leaves change,
they fall,
they are blown from one space to another.
Their pattern,
their dance,
the way they speak to me
is ever changing.
The view we see is ever changing,
like a kaleidoscope.
It may seem like the same view
but each moment
is a transformation,
it is us seeing the ever changing
nature of the world.

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Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

I have long been fascinated with kaleidoscopes.
I talk about them when I am teaching,
imagine them when I am writing,
and looking through them for inspiration.
Kaleidoscopes remind me of life.
there is always something beautiful,
something new to see.
There is always something to look forward to,
no matter what I am going through.
In the midst of the lows,
there is a beauty that strengthens me
and pulls me to the light.
With each turn,
I can see things falling apart,
but also coming together.
What I see is like life,
a piece of art that is
ever changing,
ever evolving,
ever being asked to be held,
transformed
and allowed to be
the simplicity and complexity
which is a kaleidoscope.

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The P Word

The P Word

The P word
it is what my son calls it.
P, for him, stands for patience.
We all need this right now
as we wait
to hear who will be our next President.
Patience is hard.
We want to know now,
but we can’t.
we can sit and wait.
P, right now, is about more then patience.
It is about being present.
Being present  means I have to pay attention
to this moment.
I cannot worry about the past or the future,
I have to be present in this moment.
This moment that we are in
is part of our bigger story,
which is part of the bigger story of the universe.
When I am present I am not worrying about what is coming
I am not wasting the value of this moment
worrying about what I have no control over.
I am focusing on what God is doing right now.
I do not want to distract my attention
because I might miss it.
I know that whatever happens,
God will see me through.
Until then, what I do know is this
I can be patient and present and
make the most of my precious energy,
feelings, intellect and time.
I can be present with the knowing that
the God who unfolds it all
is about more then one election.
This is about honoring the mystery,
being present in this moment,
and being patient with myself and others
while it all unfolds.

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Trust

Trust

I trust you,
one of my team members said to me.
I know you are there for me,
in good times and bad.
I know you are there to catch me
when I fall.
Her words reminded me of how and why
I trust the Ultimate.
We take risks in life
when we know we will be caught.
I trusted my parents would catch me
when they threw me in the air.
It is our trust
that frees us to fly,
to take risks,
to go places and
do things
we would otherwise dare not do.
We dare to fly
because we trust in the one
who will bring us home.

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Lean On Me

Lean On Me

I kept waking up hearing
Lean on me.
We all have those moments
when we are going through
and what we need most
is to be lifted up,
to have someone to lean on
and see us through.
We don’t need people to pull us down.
We need folks to lift us up
and say lean on me.
Lean on me
and let me be the strength
when you are weak.
Lean on me
and let me see you through.
Lean on me,
even when you do not want to,
and know that my love and friendship
will see you through.
Lean on me,
just as you challenge me
to lean on you.
It is okay to ask for help,
to trust each other
in good times and bad,
because we all have those moments
we need someone to lean on.
We have all been through
and are all going through,
but we can make it so much easier,
when we learn to
lean on each other
and understand.

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Opening Up

Opening Up
If I worked harder
maybe I could love more.
That is what they said to me.
It is what we have been taught to do,
work harder to become better.
What if instead of working harder
on loving more,
we opened our hearts and souls
to being loved by God.
What if we opening ourselves up
to receiving love,
taught us how to love others.
Not because we were working hard
but because it flowed from us,
like God’s love flows into us.
What if we worked harder
at opening ourselves up
to a deeper relationship
with our spiritual guide and mentor?
Opening up is not about working hard
it is about letting God
fill up our cup with love and blessings
and then allowing
what flows over
to flow unto others.
Our cup cannot runneth over,
if it has not first been filled.
open yourself to being filled
then let the overflow flow
naturally unto others.

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i Never Promised You A Rose Garden

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden

Growing up I remember this song
Lynn Anderson sang.
It is funny how often we have expectations
about how life is supposed to be,
as if it is supposed to be a rose garden.
Life is more like a roller coaster,
then a rose garden.
There is nothing that promises us
life will be easy or simple.
So much of our suffering comes from
our expectations of life being like a rose garden.
There may be rose garden moments,
but not all of life is like that.
We will have ups and downs.
easy times and challenging times.
What makes us appreciate the beauty and aroma of roses
is that we do not smell or have them all the time.
They are not normal,
they are special.
What if we let go of our expectations
about what life is supposed to be like?
what people are supposed to be like?
When we let go of our expectations,
we let go of unnecessary suffering in our lives
and provide ourselves with more opportunities
to spend time in our rose garden.

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Unity

Unity

Have you ever felt like someone is out to get you,
cut you down,
or pollute you?
There are days I feel like one of the worms
that the bird is looking for to eat,
or the prey of the shark.
There are days I feel like the once green land
that has been leveled for more building
or the river that has trash floating in it
or the air that is gray from the smoke.
There are days, preferably moments,
when I feel like this.
Then I remember I am also the shark
and the bird
looking for something to eat.
I am also the developer,
and the pollutant.
I have to remember that it is not either or,
us or them
you or me;
it is we.
It is about me walking in unity
with all of me,
it is about me connecting with you,
but more about me
connecting with me.
it is in this solidarity and connectionsl
in this place of unity,
It is about me building bridges
and not walls.
It is about the unity between us
and the love and respect
that grows from
unity.

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Nourishing

Nourishing

Have you ever been caught in the middle
of an emotional, mental and spiritual storm?
Those times when you and or someone in your family
is facing challenges, sometimes multiple ones
all at the same time.
Those times when you just want to scream or cry
because it is what you do when you feel frustrated
not just by what happened,
but all the things that happen because of it.
It is those times where what you need more than anything else
is to feel like you are being held in the arms of the Ultimate
and rocked into comfort,
to feel the love and support of others.
That time when a simple act of kindness from others
is so amazing humbling,
your heart overflows with love
Then it comes and you are reminded
it is coming back from the love you gave.
When you are reminded the love you planted
has taken root in the world and spread.
We nourish others and they nourish us,
this is what love is about. 
It is about nourishing all we encounter,
knowing when we are going through,
someone will nourish us.

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Hold Yourself

Hold Yourself

Do you ever have one of those moments
when you just need to be held.
You just want to be held in your parent’s arms
and rocked and comforted
and know I was loved.
I am too big now to sit on anyone’s lap
and am bigger then some people’s laps.
but sometimes I still have one of those days
when I need to be held,
and rocked and reminded that I am loved.
Sometimes I can ask my wife to hug me
and that helps,
but there is something about being rocked and held,
that is more comforting then must a hug.
Now, when I need that loving care,
I stop where ever I am
I wrap my arms around me,
as tightly as I can.
then I rock myself
until I feel loved,
and I feel the arms of the Ultimate
holding me
rocking me
and reminding me
I am loved,
We all have those moments
when we need to feel loved.
Next time you do,
just hold yourself and rock.

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in good times and bad

In Good Times and Bad

We all have good times and bad.
There are days all is going well
but there are days we all feel downcast.
It is so easy to give thanks when things are going well,
but when we are going through,
when we are feeling downcast,
it is important for us to remember
we were created to fulfill our spiritual purpose here on earth.
The world was created to help us grow and evolve,
not just in the good times
but also through the bad.
We are helping each other through the challenging times
as well as through the good times.
May we support each other,
in good times and in bad.

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Love You

Love You

I remember hearing this growing up
“As I have loved you, love one another.”
It taught me to love others
and to express that love to them.
What it did not always teach me was to love myself.
I had to ask if
I knew how to love myself?
Do I treat myself kindly?
Do I eat healthy?
Am I drinking enough water?
Am I taking enough time to rest?
Do I fill my life with peace, joy and happiness?
Am I better to others
then I am to myself or
am as kind to myself as I am to others.
Am I as generous with myself as I am to others.
Do I listen as intently to myself
as I do to others?
Learning to love myself,
in a healthy way,
has taught me
I must keep my cup full so that it can run over.
What is in my cup is for me.
it is what keeps me feeling loved.
What runneth over is what I give to others
because I am abundantly blessed.
That abundance comes so that I feel loved
and can share the abundance of God’s love
for me with others.
This unconditional sharing
starts with us learning to
love ourselves.

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Cleaning Up

Cleaning Up

I crawled,
well more like rolled,
into bed last night
thinking about my day.
I thought about how I had been of service,
and made a difference
in someone’s day.
I gave thanks for all the opportunities
to be of service.
Then I thought about
the moments I had messed up,
could have been kinder,
could have been more helpful,
and all the could have and should have moments
in my day
and I realized each of them
was still an opportunity
for me to do better
and make a difference in the world.
I realized that even in the process
of cleaning up our messes in life,
we are being humble,
we are being accountable,
we are working on being better as human beingsl
helping others find the courage
to do the same.
We all have messy moments in our life,
but when we all clean up
the messes we can,
we help to make this world a better place.
We help others to clean up their space,
and that process ripples out
and affects the world
spreading a desire
for all of us to
clean up.

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Surprise

Surprise

Have you ever thought you had
a clear plan for your life?
Then life happened,
and you were surprised
with situations and circumstances
that upset your plans
and maybe even shatter your dreams.
Then you realize that was the problem;
they were your plans
and your dreams.
They may not have been God’s.
Our ways are not God’s
and our understandings are not God’s.
Sometimes we have to accept those moments
that surprise us
and give our life
unexpected directions.
Our lives are filled with surprises.
Give thanks for them
and know they are taking us on a great adventure
we may not have taken on our own.
Surprise!

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Smile

Smile

Why do you smile?
As if there is something wrong with smiling.
The reality is I smile
because after 68 years of living,
exploring,
learning,
growing,
and evolving,
I have learned this deep dark secret,
and the answer to so many prayers.
It is simple,
everything I need to know,
everything I have ever needed
is and has always been
within me.
I am the answer to my prayers
and you are to yours,
Let’s spend more time
looking within and
discovering the parts of who we are
we did not know were there
and then just sit back and
smile.

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I Shall Not Judge

I Shall Not Judge

How different would your day be like
if you started each day
saying that just for today
I shall not judge.
What if we stopped judging ourselves and others
We all have to judge things at times, like work,
however, we can focus on being less judgmental of others.
What if we developed the skills a judge should possess,
qualities like careful listening,
deep reflection,
equanimity,
and wisdom.
What if we asked ourselves how much we really know
about a person and a situation?
Are we judging them based on what we think we know
when we really do not know all of their story?
Have we thought about times we have been judged
and how being judged feels?
I think about the times others have told me
how much better I would be
if only I did x
or stopped doing y.
Their judgmental words make me work hard
to not judge them in return
Being mindful of how their judgment makes me feel,
I work to prevent having this effect on others?

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That One Memory

That One Memory

Do you have one?
Do you have that one memory
that you store in your heart and soul?
A memory that brings you joy,
happiness, and
makes you feel connected to the Ultimate.
It is that memory you wrap yourself in
during those times you need to feel loved
because no matter what else is going on
this one memory wraps you in peace and happiness.
We all have one,
at least one,
that we store away for those moments
we need to feel loved.
This memory
is what I hold on to
in the roughest of times
because it reminds me who will see me through.
It makes me feel connected to the one,
to the Ultimate,
and sets me up on a cloud of peace
like it did when I was three
and protected me while it
removed all the obstacles
and filled my world with new beginnings.
Sixty five years later,
this memory
still sustains me.
Hold on to yours
it is still there where you left it.

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Parental Questions

Parental Questions

My parents left this realm
more than 20 years ago
but the questions they asked
my entire life
continue to live with me today.
There were three questions.
The would both ask me
what did you learn today?
Then we would share what we learned.
That was the easiest of the questions
because we could just reflect
on what we learned.
We could talk about subjects,
names, dates, facts and stuff.
Then came the real questions.
My mother would look at me and ask,
what did you ask today?
She wasn’t as concerned about what I learned,
as she was that I had learned to question,
to ask,
to want to know more than
what we were being taught.
She wanted me to learn to question and think,
and so her question was a reminder to ask.
Then was my father
who had his own question.
What did you fail at today?
It was not okay to just do well,
to pass and to succeed.
He wanted us to be willing to fail.
We were to learn to try,
to move beyond the limits
we or others had placed.
We were to be brave enough to try
that we were willing to fail.
I think he got that from his mother
who would tell me that
she who fails to fail,
fails to succeed.
To this day I encourage others to do the same:
learn, ask, and fail

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Look for the Blessings

Look for the Blessings

Look for the blessings,
my Bubby would say.
No matter what you are going through,
look for the blessings.
Life is filled with challenges,
always will be.
In the midst of them,
look for the blessings
and know you will be okay.
Things can look difficult and dangerous,
but when I look for the blessings,
I see them as gemstones,
as diamonds
not shards of glass.
Things will happen
which may seem unpleasant
but they are blessings in disguise.
I can only see them,
when I look for them.
I am looking for my blessings
Are you looking for yours? 

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Be An Artist

Be An Artist

It was in a discussion of a book
she never wrote
that Gail Ricciutti
talked with me about
God as an artist.
Perhaps one day she will
or perhaps one day I will write the book
In the meantime I need to remember
I am an artistic creation
and I,
like each of us,
has the ability to be an artist.
We need to release and relax
and allow visions and images
to come to us.
We need to practice patience
or as I suggested once,
watch snails.
We need to remember how to dream
and plant seeds for a garden
which is impossible,
but possible.
We need to remember to
say yes and
see yes,
even if it means you put
post it notes around your house.
YES!
We need to have faith
as we go on dates with uncertainty
with a belief in certainty.
This is the one I call the Ultimate,
the one who teaches me to
be an artist
and can teach you.

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