Perhaps with these mortal eyes
We do not see the full picture
We see only through a dark mirror
We are blessed and limited by our senses
So many limitless sensations
Beyond our capacity to perceive
Perhaps all around us is heaven
As near as our next breath
© 2012 Julie Clark
Receiving not grasping
Thanking not demanding
When I do this
It changes my heart
From self-centered, woe is me, how hard is my life stone
To warm
Glad to be alive
Gratefulness
For all I have
The beauty that surrounds me
(When I open my eyes fully to see it)
For those I love and who love me
Making room for more love and more gratitude
When I cannot be grateful for something directly
Because it is too painful and I can’t see its purpose
I can move around it being thankful for what I can see
And in the meantime my heart will expand to include more
And perhaps gratefulness for the good will dislodge the bitter weight of the evil.
It is more than looking at the world through a glass half full
What about thankfulness that the glass is half empty
There is room for more to come into that half empty glass
More opportunity to grow and to receive
Unfinished and limited am I
Yet still alive, ever-changing and growing
Ingratitude limits and restricts
Making the world smaller and harder
Pulling down into a spiraling vortex
Seeing without hope is a kind of not seeing
I will take rather the wings offered
To soar above
With the eagles
© 2011 Julie Clark
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