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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Harry Baker

A prayer in the form of a poem:

May you always picture where you are
as where you鈥檙e meant to be.
May you take in your surroundings
like you visited especially.
We all end up in the soil eventually,
so may you carry such goodness
that it nourishes for centuries.

May you see life as a show
and may the entry fee be empathy,
sat front row with an empty seat
for friends in need.
When you鈥檙e on form,
be generous and spread that energy.
When you鈥檙e not sure,
be gentle with yourself
and don鈥檛 forget to breathe.

You need not be defined by your many feats;
you are not a centipede.
There is a joy in doing something terribly.
May you share brews and bruises
and may you do this tenderly.
You are the most improved you
there has ever been.

May you be seriously silly,
may you be wickedly kind.
May you be brilliantly dumb sometimes
and yet stupidly bright.
May you certainly have doubts,
may your weirdness be the norm.
May the coolest thing about you
be your warmth.

May you be powerfully vulnerable,
or at least mightily soft.
May you be a contradiction,
and yet at the same time not.
And, whether you are any, none
or all of the above,
above all, may you know
that you are loved.

Just as you cannot be in traffic
without being traffic,
life is not something
that you are stuck in
while it happens.
There is more in you
than you could possibly imagine.
The very fact that you exist
makes everything a bit more magic.

When it all feels too much
and there is little you can do,
may you still see the best in people
and may people include you.
May one thing match the gravity
of all you鈥檝e ever done.
This wonderful reality:
the best is yet to come

Amen.

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