Friday, March 20, 2020

Goodwill

Goodwill                           

My Lord, being perfect, said,
give Me what I don’t have

your imperfections, urging us
to lay them freely at His feet,

not keeping them egregiously with us
nor leaving them for Him to painfully extract.  

Still, every personal quirk,
tendency and failing that shapes us

(even as we seek to give them away)
shall (apparently) remain with us to the end.

It’s not perfection we shall develop but love –
a universal goodwill, a generosity toward others,

a natural, unforced and spontaneous
flowing from imperfect hearts –                

this being but another humble step
on the long road to Realization.

O child of God, to come under the Master’s care
is to abandon all rancor and grievance.



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