Treat Yourself Each Day to Love and Kindness

February 10, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, which began on February 5, and this year is the Year of the Pig.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem for the Chinese, or Lunar New Year of the Sheep, from the Sheep’s point of view:

Treat yourself each day to love and kindness.

Heaven is a place within the heart.

Each ritual of faith may well seem mindless,

Yet one is only whole when one is part.

Even though I may seem timid, shy,

A worrier for all who might feel pain,

Remember well the well-wrought reason why:

One gives with love what will one's love sustain.

Faith is one's connection to the whole,

The story that makes sense of the event.

How might the self seem separate from the soul

Except through love perceived as permanent?

So must we be filled with love that we

Have just a glimpse of what it means to be,

Embracing freely what we cannot know,

Each suffering what all must undergo,

Patient in the hands of mystery.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Chinese, or Lunar New Year

2/4: The Point Is Just that I Don’t See the Point

2/5: There’s Nothing Really Wrong with Being Last

2/6: There Is No Knowledge – Only Good Opinion

2/7: There May Be Some Who’ve Wondered Why the Rat

2/8: There’s No Secret to Nobility

2/9: They Also Serve Themselves Who Lie in Wait

2/10: Treat Yourself Each Day to Love and Kindness