Friday, September 10, 2021

Leave the rest

Leave the rest                                                                                                   
 
Do your best, said my Lord, and leave Me the rest.
Many years now, I’ve been doing my best
 
to understand what it is I should be doing
to make the most of my allotted days –
 
to be not left behind or led astray
but only lately has He brought home to me
 
that everyone, everyone is doing their best
with what they have been given.
 
So self-satisfying to picture myself
as a chosen child among the lost 
 
while the truth is we are all lost,
all God’s children, an equal distance apart.
 
A truth with which we are constantly confronted
but, in spite of our best efforts, choose to ignore.
 
O child of God, everyone is living out their karma
as best they might.  Leave the rest to Him.




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