Happy New Year

I decided the best way to start the new year on my blog is to share one of my favorite books of all time.  This is a collection of prose and poems, a meditation, and things that make you go,   Hummmmmmmmm.......Here is a portion of one of my favorite pieces!

Who would I be?
If I were then?

Would I stand on the curb and watch him go by?  Would I have knocked off for the afternoon to see what he had to say?  Would I have raised my eyebrows and wondered what all the excitement was about?  Would I have stood with a few on the corner and wondered pettishly, when were the authorities going to put a stop to this thing before it got out of hand!  Would I have drunk it all in, and been wide-eyed and wide-hearted with wonder?  Would I have  clinched my opinion as soon as I saw he was associating with some of "those" kinds of people?  Would I have smiled benevolently at the stories of wonders and healings?  Would I have wanted to get his autograph?  Would I have stood aside and waited thoughtfully--oh so thoughtfully--for him to prove himself fact or fiction?  Would I have slept soundly that Friday night, and the next night too?

Isn't it nice to be
here,
now,
for we can't mad those mistakes.

God have mercy on us.
God have mercy on us.


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!