Amen

I don’t want the goodness of being

to be something I make up,

something that can fail

if my imagination

or my persistence

be lacking

I don’t want it to be up to me

whether there’s joy in the day,

whether the people in the world

feel fulfilled, know they are beloved

I want that truth to dawn

on its own, because it’s true,

because truth is insuppressible.

I want to get to be surprised

and delighted

by the goodness of being

spilling into my life

with joyful abandon

I ask this in the name of

all that is real.

So be it,

and so it is. Amen.

©Wendy Mulhern

June 16, 2017