[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Kybalion yesterday

[Toni Bernbaum]

> 
> Belief
> 
> So I can’t save the world— 
> can’t save even myself,
> can’t wrap my arms around
> every frightened child, can’t
> foster peace among nations,
> can’t bring love to all who
> feel unlovable.
> So I practice opening my heart
> right here in this room and being gentle
> with my insufficiency. I practice
> walking down the street heart first.
> And if it is insufficient to share love,
> I will practice loving anyway.
> I want to converse about truth,
> about trust. I want to invite compassion
> into every interaction.
> One willing heart can’t stop a war.
> One willing heart can’t feed all the hungry.
> And sometimes, daunted by a task too big,
> I tell myself what’s the use of trying?
> But today, the invitation is clear:
> to be ridiculously courageous in love.
> To open the heart like a lilac in May,
> knowing freeze is possible
> and opening anyway.
> To take love seriously.
> To give love wildly.
> To race up to the world
> as if I were a puppy,
> adoring and unjaded,
> stumbling on my own exuberance.
> To feel the shock of indifference,
> of anger, of cruelty, of fear,
> and stay open. To love as if it matters,
> as if the world depends on it
> 
> 	- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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