Once, looking for God,
I saw little else but my own confusions:
How could I bring my many petty trials
Before Truth's healing omnipresence?
Were not my own strivings
At best a form of compromise?
No wonder both body and sense ached
For more than I could deliver!
I modified this so-called view of "self"
With what I could see with increasing clarity
Of Love's tenderest expression.
At first, I carefully penned
A step-by-step plan for furthering good.
But, as I realized that God, good,
Is already limitless,
I threw down my pen, and . . . laughed!
Just like that, self-will was broken.
Love, ever-present God, lifts burdens.
Lightly?
Completely!
