[Katniss]

A friend of mine (Joe Z.) who I met while working in Haiti often sends me weekly poems and quotes. I found this particular one worth sharing.

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Be the Blessing
Sitting in the cupola at Pelican House this morning as the sun was rising,
watching and listening to the waves rise, crest, crash and disappear--
I had a question: "What's the point?"

Waves are all ocean all the time, but what's the point
of this human wave called "Joe Z?"
This wave that arose over six decades ago, and could
crash and slide back into Oceanic Being at any moment?

What's the point of this human life?

The first line in the Aramaic Prayer of Jesus
is a cosmic finger pointing to a full moon that says:
Know who you are--you are an infinite wave of blessing.

And that's you and me and everyone.
Everyone, without a single exception, is a wave of blessing.
And once you know that, then just be that. Be the blessing you are.

And bless. You may have a knack for blessing in a special way.
I have a knack for blessing people into deeper consciousness.
You may have a knack for blessing people's bodies.
Or blessing their automobiles with a tune-up.
It doesn't matter what your gift is, so long as you bless people with it.

In a talk about a month before he died, Thomas Merton told a group
of fellow contemplatives in Delhi--Brothers, it's so simple:
"What we have to be is what we are."

And what we are, what each of us is, is an infinite wave of blessing.


Joe Z.


Katniss~~