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.