Ruth Hersey is hosting on this Maunday Thursday and asked us to write about service. Check out Ruth's post where you can find links to the reflections of other spiritual travelers. Feel free to join us with your own thoughts. We are an open and welcoming group who post on the first Thursday of the month.
In honor of National Poetry Month, I'm sharing a favorite poem, "Everyday Grace" by Stella Nesanovich from the Poetry Foundation website. Please stop now, click on the link, and read her poem.
I chose to write an acrostic using the poet's words, "holy ground." You'll recognize ideas from the poem in my Holy Ground acrostic as I wrote about our theme of service. My gratitude to the poet, Stella Nesanovich, for inspiration for today's poem.
Holy Ground
He set the example by washing the feet
Of His disciples. Sometimes you
Lift a friend through prayer, sometimes
You offer the quiet heart that listens.
Gentle expressions of caring concern
Reveal the hope that stitches
Our precarious world together. Simple actions can
Unleash goodness in a world so in
Need of solace. Offer a smile, listen, reach out.
Decide now to extend grace everyday.
- Ramona Behnke
Diane (newtreemom)
ReplyDeleteHope that stitches our world together… unleash goodness… extend grace everyday… yes. We are the salt (to heal) and light (to show the way to His love).
Ramona, your poem reminds us that service isn't loud and brash, but gentle, and comes from the heart. I read your post after I published mine and noticed that we have some similar examples of service. Bob
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