greenly

i thank you God for most this amazing

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything

wich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth

day of life and love and wings:and of the gay

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing 

breathing any-lifted from the no

of all nothing-human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and

now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

- e. e. cummings

Dearest Readers: even when life sucks, even when you fight with your Mum, even when you forget your beauty and worth, even when you bury your heart or forget to protect it, even when the day is dark and the night is lonely, even when you eat tears for breakfast, even when guilt haunts you and doubt hunts you, even when goodness and God seem too far to reach...

... even then, there is E. E. Cummings.

Open to life and healing. Drink poetry and art and creation; skull it down like medicine. These things are sections of God's love laid out for you like some heavenly feast. Be greedy - consume it all. Take all that is natural and infinite and yes, for it is yours. If everything is His, and you, as a child of God, are a co-heir with Christ, then it is your birthright. You are a leaping greenly spirit, and you are destined for greatness. Do not confine yourself to grief and sorrow. Do not be governed by grammar and society. With Christ, you are more than conquerors. Throw open the curtains and let the Light pour in. Step up boldly and claim the gifts that are yours. Friends, Jesus came to give us abundant life, so come and receive it.