Step Ten: Consciousness

 Camels drink in the Gobi Desert, Taylor Weidman

Calling all enemies!  Calling all here

and now so we can love you to pieces.

At first, tentatively, tender to fear

that we will give you wings instead of ground.

Calling our fears!  Calling you here so we

can love you, hold you and win you over—

“Hold your friends close and enemies closer.”

We have neglected you.  Come and let’s drink

the milk of human kindness.  Let’s find it

together, this lost art of dis-arming.

Let's take it on our tongues and drink it in—

resolve to leave deserts of violence.

Calling all violence!  Calling all here

into the circle of community.

We center love, experience courage, 

take a small step and then, yes, recognize

love grows.  The Divine Gift, it flows. Water

and milk and air and blood. The spirit knows.

Inspired by Richard Rohr's 

TWELVE-STEP SPIRITUALITY: STEP TEN

Part of my series Oh, Ye of Little Faith*

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© 2016 Susan L. Chast