mindful

Empower me

to be a bold participant

rather than a timid saint in waiting,

in the difficult ordinariness of now;

to exercise the authority of honesty;

rather than to defer to power,

or deceive to get it,

to influence someone for justice,

rather than impress anyone for gain;

and, by grace, to find treasures

of joy, of friendship, of peace

hidden in the fields of the daily

you give me to plow.

----Ted Loder

Done