Bend to Benevolence
You are not here to verofy,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report.
You are here to kneel.
T.S.Eliot
Embracing benevolence
means leaning into life
with unrestrained loving-kindness.
For it is good will that leads to well-being,
and pursuing good for others
increases our capacity to care.
In the firely glow
of our brief beautiful life,
will you let your pulse beat out a blessing
in the darkening day?
Begin with benevolence.
Bend into it.
Incline your life toward the good,
and with good will, give it away to
everything in the arc of your gaze.
Work your eyes and heart in the pursuit of the good.
Focus not on the flaw or that lack,
but seek out the glimmer of a desire deeper
than darkness.
Seed the very air with heavenly blessings
ti;; your life becomes a benediction,
willing and wanting the well-being of each
and all.
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
By the purification of the motive
In the ground of our beseeching.
T.S.Eliot
Excerpted from Still in the Storm Blog