In My Power
Always something possible.
Can I make the grass, the trees grow faster through my efforts? Can I bring a stop to rains though great exertion? Can I stop the aging of my neighbor?
I am powerless over great and small things.
Can I alter my course to account for weather? Can I tend with care and weed my garden?
Can I bring cheer to my fellows?
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There is always something in my power.
Let me make the ripples you would have me make, Lord.
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I live my power today?
Reading:
“Some things are in our control and others not.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion
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“Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
— Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”
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“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” — Micah 6:8 (KJV)
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