If we ever want the world to come together
as one united family…
(which has never happened on this Earth before)
there are two qualities we need to be fostering…
two behaviors we need to be exhibiting more…
To have a universally united world…
where everyone…for everyone…is caring…
we all need to be more loving…
and we all need to do more sharing.
How important is it for our children to learn how to share?
to give…to receive…to take turns?
It just might be the most important lesson they will ever learn.
Sharing teaches kindness and generosity…
It engulfs us like a glove….
It is especially important in life…
when it comes to sharing love.
There are many kinds of love…
diverse, beautiful…and freeing…
like the kind of love we share with another human being.
We start by sharing a look…then a smile…a little conversation…
Sharing with another person allows us to build a strong foundation.
We share time together…a touch…a kiss…a laugh
and when we know our sharing will never end
we share rings and vows…an apartment…a house…
children and good friends.
After sharing so much support, and joy and love
we stop every now and then to think how lucky we are
and to thank our destiny and the heavens above…
We think how truly blessed we are…
to live a life so magnificent…so sublime…
when we realize in all these years of sharing a life…
we’ve shared a whole lifetime.
And after sharing so many moments we can no longer count…
moments we’ve been excited, surprised…
cried and laughed and smiled…
we stop to remember
and to thank…
those who taught us how to share…
when we were just a child.
I am grateful for all those people
so kind…so generous…so sweet…
who have the ability to find the sunlight
in everyone they meet…
Not only to find their sunlight…
but by reading between a person lines…
find ways to inspire and encourage
that person’s sun to shine.
May we be blessed each morning
before a new day has begun…
to remind ourselves
to cherish every moment in the sun….
And if the sun is not shining on someone…
may we…to all concerned
offer up the brightness of our smile
until their sun returns.
We love to begin some days with a walk along the beach…
We leave the house in the dark when the streetlights are still on…
and walk until the darkness surrenders to the civil dawn.
We walk towards the east because that allows our eyes
to adjust from the darkness to the light as the sun begins to rise.
On one particular morning…
as the sun began it’s slow advancement across the land….
we noticed a single yellow primrose…up ahead
smiling in the sand.
As we approached that primrose
we observed on this part of the beach…she was the only one….
to us she seemed less like a flower…
and more like a drop…left there by the sun.
And we thought if rain can fall in drops out of the sky…
from a sea of clouds all painted blue…
is it possible in the morning…
there can be sun drops falling too?
Drops we usually don’t see individually…
as they blend together to brighten up the land…
but drops that occasionally find a place to rest…
like on the shoreline in the sand.
So now whenever we see a primrose on our beach walk
every primrose that we find…
we greet as a little drop of daylight…
the sun has left behind…
I am grateful for the variety and diversity of voices
that have guided me in my daily trip across this land…
that included the voices of nature
I’m still working hard to understand…
May we be blessed as we grow up
to retain within us some traits of our childhood…
back to a time when everything was innocent and good.
When everything around us was a new discovery
waiting to be found…
When we chased fireflies, butterflies
and leaves drifting on the winds of autumn…
before they hit the ground.
