Sunday, May 9, 2021
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things.....
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
You must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore....only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world
to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye
Mother's Day 2021
