And more.

My neighbor has trouble.

Their fence was crushed under a falling tree. Repairs must be made, but they are not mine to make.

Still, that fence serves us all by keeping the herd contained.

While I watch, from my morning room, I send good wishes. Can I do more? Let me do more, Lord.

❖

Let my love and gratitude be an action.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I do more for my fellows?

Reading:

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

— Joan Baez

❖

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

— Mother Teresa

❖

“Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”

— 1 John 3:18 (KJV)

Thank you for reading. If this helped you today, consider subscribing or sharing it.

Offered to all.

I am desperate for my neighbor, my family, the world, to know the truth: all will be well.

Am I equally desperate to know this myself?

Might I treat myself with the same compassion I try to bring to others?

❖

Let me love the small soul locked within my body, Lord.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I offer myself compassion?

Reading:

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

— Julian of Norwich

❖

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

❖

“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

— Mark 12:31 (KJV)

Thank you for reading. If this helped you today, consider subscribing or sharing it.

Deserved by all.

Did I have an opportunity to offer comfort, and refuse? To welcome, yet I turned them away, while others I embraced?

The sea welcomes all rivers, clean and choked with waste equally. The rain falls on fertile and fallow ground equally.

❖

Wherefore then do I judge?

Let me love all.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I love all?

Reading:

“The sea accepts all rivers, for the sea itself is made by receiving.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

❖

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

— attributed to Plato

❖

“For he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”

— Matthew 5:45 (KJV)

Thank you for reading. If this helped you today, consider subscribing or sharing it.

Not floating.

Laying on the ground floor of a quiet room.

I am pressed up by the earth as evenly as I am held down. I do not float away, I do not sink down.

❖

Perfectly supported.

– from the mountain

Consider:

Can I feel your support in all things?

Reading:

“Stand still in that which is pure, after ye see yourselves; and then mercy comes in.” – George Fox

❖

“We are upheld by foundations we do not always see.” – Simone Weil

❖

“Underneath are the everlasting arms.” – Deuteronomy 33:27, KJV

Thank you for reading. If this helped you today, consider subscribing or sharing it.