The best of intentions

The best of intentions                                                                                 

With the best of intentions, might we face life
but from limited perspectives, making a muddle of it. 
 
So suggest the teachings.  The best Way,
say the mystics, is to live without intent. 
 
Let God every moment lead us by the hand,
ourselves disappearing in the eternal now. 
 
That being next to impossible, we’ve been given
(by the best among us) the best of intentions –
 
the goal of reunion with God to occupy
in the meantime our hearts and heads –
 
so we are surefooted in where we are bound and why,
embracing the future, discarding the past,
 
no tolerance for distractions
from our one, best and most holy of intentions.
 
O child of God, the Avatar comes to pull us up
from the muck of ignorance and illusion.