Kindness

Kindness                                                                                         

I asked for guidance;

You offered silence –

a path not chosen for me,

but walked with me.

The bread of companionship. 

The wine of oneness.

Your Word – so ardently shaped by Your Silence –

how, in good faith, should I now

prefer one to the other?

‘Move toward kindness,’ Rumi said.

The Mandali were kind enough

to accept me as a fellow lover of God

and, years later, daring to hear

the root meaning of that word:  ilk, sort, type –

a kindred spirit to those valiant souls

and, ultimately – improbably – to You.  

O child of God – you, the Christ and the Father are One.

Salvation depends upon the kindness of God.