A Different Beat

  Do it Anyway (Mother Teresa of Calcutta) People are often unreasonable, illogical and self centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;  Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis,  it is between you and your God ; It was never between you and them anyway.

Silent Scream, Silent Echoes ( Yes, swallows No )   Before the silence of unleavened bread I see not You; it is never YOU! Before the kneeling figures that overshadows You, I feel not You; It is never YOU! Before the whiteness of the wafer I taste nothing! It is but nothing ("bread alone") Before the wind that surrounds the mystery I feel not You! It is certainly not YOU!   Everything that my senses tell me, they are all Screaming, Commending, Persuading It is NOT YOU!   All of those that I see, feel, taste, and touch are but ordinary It cannot be DIVINE !   And yet, the silence betrays Your voice – small and still And yet, those shadowy figures that hovers my uncertainty commands me It is YOU! And yet the white hue of banal bread (says who?) Tasteless it may see reflects DIVINE! And yet the gentle wind that whispers to my ears contradicts and brings the ordinary – to a new dimension.   My stubborn NO is swa...