[Thespiritexpress] Poem read at Kybalion yesterday

[Laura Pope]

Thank you Toni. Just what I needed.  xo,  L



> On Sep 24, 2025, at 10:13 AM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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>> 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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