This past Sunday at Soul Center, my message was titled: What I Know For Sure.  As in, what I know for sure about my life. One thing I shared is this: If I change my perception, my experience changes. I know this for sure because I’ve had this experience. I didn’t need a book or a guru. I’ve lived this.

And I shared a poem that so beautifully and poignantly captures this exact truth. It is from The Path to Kindness, Poems of Connection and Joy, edited by James Crews.

Mimesis by Fady Joudah

My daughter wouldn’t hurt a spider
That has nested
Between her bicycle handles
For two weeks
She waited
Until it left of its own accord

If you tear down the web I said
It will simply know
This isn’t a place to call home
And you’d get to go biking

She said that’s how others
Become refugees isn’t it?

With great humility
Paula