For Healing

Poems From The Porch

nonjudgmental presence to myself

unconditional positive regard for myself

only supportive assumptions about myself

lead to

full acceptance of you

generous love for you

believing the best about you

Don’t be fooled.

You can’t have one without the other.

How can this be?

Because . . .

there is only One of us here.

Seeing the innocence in myself and others

is mandatory,

not optional.

Approaching the Divinity in me as a child,

utterly dependent and trusting,

approaching the Divinity in you as a child,

with respect and wonder,

embracing Jesus in disguise in you

and in me,

is all I ever need for healing.