May 20,  2021

ATMOSPHERE  OF  PEACE

What I want?
What I like?
It's to look at the menu

and order an atmosphere of peace

for every person at the table.

I want to bring peace 

into the rooms I enter -

to the tables I sit at -

into the conversations 

I find myself in.

I have some choices.

I can listen.

I can leave my ugly feelings

at the door - and walk in 

hoping for more.

I can't fill the whole valley 

or my street with peace,
but I can simply do what Christ did:
Enter rooms and be the peace we're all
looking for in each other. Amen.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2021