I’m learning to let go
when the need to judge
someone else looms large —
to let them be foolish or wise,
right or wrong.

It’s not as easy to let go
when I’m doing as told,
showing up, reporting for duty,
asking to know God’s will,
to have power to carry it out.
I still want to object,
to say that won’t work,
to say I’m not able.
Nope, I’m not. But I’m not
in charge. And I’m just the tool.
If the impossible happens,
it was supposed to.

The list of things which we absolutely know, is not a long one, and we have not the luck to add a fresh one to it often, but I recognized that I had added one to mine this day. I knew, now, that it isn’t safe to sit in judgment upon another person’s illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet. ~ Samuel Clemens, Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes