Sharing Sharon

dedicated to her second and third

generation and to the scut work

in the kitchen of the church

she shies at being thanked for service

seldom recognized or acknowledged

saying, with self-deprecation,

“I’m just one little key

in the whole piano.”

grateful morning

nearly all my life

 have awakened happy

my years of questioning

the attributes of God

have turned into a lifetime

of recognizing i – and no one –

is large enough to state

an absolute definition

but those years of questioning

the existence of God

were always dissolved

by realizing i would have no one

to thank for morning

filter

filter your worldview through empathy

cushion your reactions through compassion

pause before assigning blame or judgement

to ask yourself how much you truly know

headlong into hellfire

gentle souls conquer without winning

testing further their compassion

toward their tormentors

deepening their humbleness

but heaping coals of fire on the heads

of those diving into the hellfire

of bitter littleness and loss