Reflections while driving home from recovering my car after it was towed from where my children parked it

I’m grateful that you’re here,
grateful that we could bail you out
and bring you home,
and have you in our lives,
Grateful that this, too,
is life-building,
and you will be stronger
because of it

Grateful to have learned
(though sorry that I didn’t learn it sooner)
that we only have one job
concerning you,
which is to see you —
to behold, in awe, your essence,
far more intricate and comprehensive
than we could grasp in a moment
or in years,
though we might glimpse it
in either years or moments . . .

No need to compel or criticize —
We only need (and need to only)
see and celebrate
what you bring,
what you give,
what you are.

©Wendy Mulhern
June 29, 2013


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