Choosing

We have two choices

at every one

of life's intersections:

   (1) build this moment,

   thought, word, act, or plan

   on the foundation of love;

   (2) build on something else,

   like fear, ego, hiding, competition,

   self-loathing, indifference.

Each time we make

choice #2, whatever

we have constructed will crumble.

   God – Love – will be there,

   patiently waiting to help us

   gather the rubble

   and build again.

   When we are courageous enough,

   in any given moment and circumstance,

   to make choice #1,

grace is the mortar

that secures the broken pieces

of our lives, forming them

and us into beautiful structures

   of hope, matching the blueprints

   embedded in our spiritual DNA

   since the dawn of creation.

© 2015 Todd Jenkins