In My Power

Always something possible.

Can I make the grass, the trees grow faster through my efforts? Can I bring a stop to rains though great exertion? Can I stop the aging of my neighbor?

I am powerless over great and small things.

Can I alter my course to account for weather? Can I tend with care and weed my garden?

Can I bring cheer to my fellows?

There is always something in my power.

Let me make the ripples you would have me make, Lord.

– from the mountain


Consider:

Can I live my power today?


Reading:

“Some things are in our control and others not.”

— Epictetus, Enchiridion

“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”

“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” — Micah 6:8 (KJV)


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