For many of us today is a time to be with our friends and families. I hope you are enjoying your day and focusing on what is most important.
If, like me, you find this a time of contemplation then I share this poem with you.
In Everything
Everything is only one thing, for there is no more than everything;
everything is all embracing, for everything leaves nothing out.
To single out today as a day where all is embraced
is to fall short of everything;
for everything includes all time, all space, all creatures, all matter, all ideas and all emotion.
On this day when we are called to be as one, to share, to commune together -
we may no longer choose the exclusion of anything.
To embrace with all that has come before us, all that is before us and all that will come after
we must move beyond the knowledge that we may not share everything;
instead, today, let’s unshackle our perspectives to allow ourselves to share
in everything.
