Our Father/Mother

 Try this prayer.

Our Father/Mother who art in the Heaven within us, hallowed be all thy names. Thy Kingdom seen, thy will be Love on earth in all Love’s forms.
Give us to share our daily bread, and forgive us our human failings, as we forgive the failings of others.
Make us strong against temptation, and resolute in the face of evil.
For thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory of Love.

Worker

 Most human civilizations, if not all of them, have been built on the abuse of the worker.

Human

 You learn what it means to be human when you understand love and suffering.

journey

 

Work

 The most menial work can be done with integrity, and the most important work can be done with greed and malice.

An artist says

 An artist says.

“I paid attention.”
“I saw beauty.”
“I made it tangible.”
“I’m on fire.”

Vietnam

 

War

 War

The cold, bloody axe
Splits them again, choosing hate
As their engagement

Peace is buried now
In decades of sand and dust
While deep fear takes root

Who will remind us
We are all human beings
And that is what counts

War is a failure
To speak for humanity
Letting weapons talk

Mounds of bloody flesh
Dead children in mother’s arms
Will not deter them

Children are fodder
Hostages are brutalized
No one thinks of love

This is human beings
Shedding their right to glory
For the choice to kill

The sane have no voice
The peacemakers are stifled
War’s engine prevails

This is all of us
What we keep choosing to be
Noble words seem cheap