ONE AND THE SAME

console yourself, 

for your separation from God

is the hardest work there is..

Hafiz

ONE AND THE SAME

Veiled from my own radiance

I continue to play 

this game of hide and seek with God and with myself

As if we are separate.

Is it too much to want,

a true and sustainable peace with myself?

Pray once a day with words,

Pray with hands that work,

Pray from your heart

As you tend to what is growing 

In the rich uncertain soil of your soul.

Pray softly like morning dew on grass,

Open like a sacred playground.

Let others swing on you, 

Teeter-totter,

Wrestle in your sandbox.

Become what ever is necessary, 

Be all things to all people, 

Expand beyond the limits 

Of your disbeliefs,

Imagine,

Imagine God, 

Imagine God and You

Are One and the Same.