#inspiration
WHAT DO YOU DESIRE
A question for everyone to think about…all peoples from coast to coast:
When it comes to the life you’re living…what do you desire most?
If your answer is money…all the money you can earn…
and never doing anything without getting something in return.
If this is what you desire…if this is your key to happiness…THEN
the mission of this poem is to make you think again.
To think about helping others…helping them to live, to laugh, to learn…
making no assumptions about them and asking for nothing in return.
When you see someone struggling and say, “Let me help you;!”
When you hold open a door…
When you feed a hungry person or animal…
When you give time and money to the poor.
You won’t get any richer…you won’t find fortune or fame…
and there’s a good chance those you help will never know your name.
So what do you get when you help another being…
and, perhaps, your own pleasure you forgo?
More than you will ever see…and more than you will ever know.
You understand in that moment you’ve made the world
a little more beautiful than it was a moment before…
And as you witness another’s joy…and feel their love
you’ll want so see and feel that more and more.
When you stop to help someone without ever asking why…
you have just experienced something all the money in the world could never buy.
So I return to my original question…and once again inquire…
When it comes to the life you’re living…what more could you desire?
IT MIGHT
If you think helping another person won’t change the world…
Then I suggest you finish reading this rhyme…
Because one of the best ways to change the world is
one person at a time.
ONE FLOWER IN THE SAND
On a walk along the beach…after we’d been walking for a while
we came upon a flower growing in the sand…and immediately we smiled.
And this one flower got me thinking:
We are living in a world where increasingly we see
some people do not act without first asking themselves…What’s in it for me?
While at the same time…in the same world we see
other people, like this flower, making others smile
never thinking to ask…What’s in it for me?
Look around, despite the news, there is in humanity a definite trend
to help a stranger, help a neighbor, help an animal…help a friend.
You’ll see people encouraging someone they never met before…
complimenting, congratulating, lending a hand…holding a door.
Writing a note, giving a gift…letting another person know…
it’s them they’re thinking of.
helping someone in need…sewing seeds of love.
When we bring someone joy…we fee it in our core….
how we’ve helped to make the world a little more beautiful
than it was a moment before.
And we begin to think in beautiful…because we understand…
all it takes to make the world more beautiful…
is one flower in the sand.
ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE
May we be blessed every day…
as through through the trials and tribulations of this world we traverse….
to understand peace will only come to us
when we are all one with the universe
DO WHAT WE KNOW IS RIGHT
\May we be blessed in this life each day we’re notching…
to do what we know is right
even…when we think no one is watching
DAILY GRATITUDE WHO WE REALLY ARE
Today I’m grateful for kindness
As I grow a little older…each day more and more I find.
the people I admire most in life…
are those who are gentle, generous and kind.
SHELTER FROMTHE STORM
Today I’m channeling on of my favorite Bob Dylan songs to help me with my poem.
SHELTER FROM THE STORM
A storm has raged across this country since its inception…
swirling clouds of greed and prejudice and hate.
And as long as this storm continues…our country never will be great!
To those who have been and still feel oppressed, hopeless and forlorn…
I offer up my house to give you shelter from the storm.
To the indigenous people whose initial kindness
we repaid with savagery and scorn…
Come in, I say, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
To anyone whose skin color we make feel like a crown of thorns…
Come in, I say, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
To all of you who know what gender you truly are
inside the body to which you were born…
Come in, I say, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
To those who choose to pray and love Gods of all different forms…
Come in, I say, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
To those who choose to love each other
whose love is met with ridicule and scorn…
Come in, I say, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
And to all of you with a disability…know this…
we all deviate a little from the norm…
Come in, I say, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.
Even though this storm has been raging for 240 years or more…
today it seems much stronger and more destructive than before.
So now more than ever we need more people
To offer a place to keep each other protected, safe and warm….
Now more than ever we need more people to say…
Come in my friends and I will give you…shelter from the storm.
A BLESSING NOT A CURSE
In the vast expanse of what we know as the entire universe…
May we all strive that our presence on this planet we call home
be a blessing…not a curse
DAILY GRATITUDE OLIVIA
Today I’m grateful for the words of Olivia Harrison
who was more than George’s wife….
She also knew the pathway to a satisfying life.
‘If you see someone falling behind…walk beside them
If you see someone being ignored…find a way to include them
Always remind people of their worth…
One small act could mean the world to them.’