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The Miracle is This…everything you lack is in you now

the miracle is this—everything you think you lack is in you now
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(The following piece is a part of a series of essays and poems that inspired paintings by the same title.)

If I could have any wish come true, it wouldn’t be for a skinnier body or a younger face. I wouldn’t wish for a better boyfriend or more money or a quicker intelligence. My wish would be for more faith.

I practice my faith with prayer and words. I go to God everyday with my joys and my sorrows. I expect a lot from him when I am praying and I know, at that moment, He can deliver. But, too often when I am going about my daily life, I behave as if I had no faith at all–afraid that my life will not work out right, fearful of the dark and the unknown. If I am not careful, I can be caught in a mire of doubt and fear about what the day will bring, that saps the joy from the best day. If I am not careful, I will miss the good that is always given.

Why is that? Why can’t I just let go and trust. I don’t exactly know.

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The Heart is the Last to Forget

the heart is the last to forget
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(The following piece is a part of a series of essays and poems that inspired paintings by the same title.)

the heart is the last to forget
Today, we rode through the winding ways
As heart-to-heart we traveled.
Living in this and times gone by
Remembering and wanting.
Wanting something no longer here,
Not here, at least, on this day we travel.
But, alive in a place where I keep safe
The truth that is always remembered. Safe and whole and far from the roads
And the days that weary the wanderer.
Safe in my heart where I recall well
The ways of the times gone by.
All things change.
One thing remains.
In my heart, I know the truth.
And, the heart is the last to forget.