Its Sunday and this poet laureate has words that might help you truly worship that, who, or what your tradition instructs.

Excerpt from Valentine for Earnest Mann by Noami Shihab Nye

. . . Once I knew a man who gave his wife

two skunks for a valentine

He couldn’t understand why she was crying

“I thought they had such beautiful eyes.”

And he was serious. He was a serious man

who lived in a serious way.  Nothing was ugly

just because the world said so. . .

A few thoughts from The Good Decision

The poet offers our minds a pardon from the prison we might have built out of iron bar words.  We have a culture of Blackening Smiths who build bad words out of false impressions leaving us imprisoned inside words like ; communism, socialism, left wing, right wing, liberal, conservative and on and on and on.  Our poet appears to instruct you to become fluid, courageous and flexible in your thinking mind.  Behind the iron bar words lies the world in all its fascinating and sometime horrifying beauty. Pardon your mind and let it out of jail.  Follow the dream and the mornings first fresh glance. Take on the iron bar words in the working week. Bless this day of rest.