Whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile…
It is what comes out of a person that defiles.
—Mark 7.18, 20
A beautiful stone, a gem of great value,
is treated with contempt and thrown into the mud.
Has anything changed?
The marvelous colors are still there,
the opalescent beauty,
marbled with light.
Though mud be thrown at you
you will not become mud.
What is holy remains, undefiled.
Take your soul to the river,
wash yourself in the tender love of the Divine
and marvel at your colors.
Bear yourself with the confidence of the gemstone.
Some may see mud,
but you know, you know.
—August 29, 2018