“Can you see,
or often instead
blind of the little things
taken for granted?
And when things come
crashing to the ground,
the thread you hang onto
is bound and tethered to you.
But hang onto it, oh yes, you do.
Then you realize
how less independent
you really are too,
and not far from others in your way.
For all of you are connected
more deeply than you can imagine today.
And when destruction comes your way
you see it and come together -
no more one alone are you today.
The true nature of you
quickly arises – the One Soul of you
that fills the human with gratitude
for the things you may not have, we say,
even if for a short time in your day.
Yet how quickly too you can forget
when your days return, blue skies again -
until the next storm.
So, learn from these times we say.
Never forget you are One in your way
of those you find on the path with you.
And we ask you, never let gratitude
for the ways you have of being today
to slip through your hands
like grains of sand.
Instead look deeply too at all around you -
the little things you find
you took for granted.
But not this time.
The people in your way,
calling you today
to join in too,
finding all of the multitudes
singing praises of gratitude.”
The LightKeepers/Carolyn Hass Zaiser