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Lessons from Life
I watched him
Walking down my street,
This stranger I had never met.
I looked to see
What kind of man was he.
My eyes looked for
Some trace of evil,
Some sign to feed my fear.
What you seek, you often find.
Thus I found him a threat
And prepared defense
To keep him at bay.
What then if I had searched
For friendship’s sign,
For all we shared
And sought in common?
Paul G. Weaver
2017 -
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When you meet another
Take time
To see yourself
In them.
Consider what they
See in you.
For in every meeting,
To someone,
You are the other guy.
Paul G. Weaver
2017 -
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Blessed be those who see the humor
In their own humanity,
Laughing with, not at.
Blessed be those who dare
To appear weak
In the practice of gentleness.
Blessed be the damaged
Whose pain has taught them
To recognize the pain in others.
Blessed be the ones who respond
Because they know
And care.
Paul G Weaver
2017
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A life is lost.
It matters not
What be the species,
For grief
Grows out of caring,
And caring is a gift
That makes life richer.
Fear not grief.
Let it remind you
That you loved.
Paul G. Weaver
2017 -
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Life
Is limited
In time,
But not
In love.
So love
So fully
That your life
Is worth
All the time
You have.
Paul G. Weaver
2007 -
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Theology
Means little to me.
God, heaven, hell
Are questions
I have no way
Or need to answer.
I know
That seeing people
Put down, diminished
Or hurt
Brings me pain
And seeing people
Encouraged, respected,
Uplifted,
Brings me joy.
And when I act
With caring and kindness,
Valuing life
For its own sake,
I am fulfilled.
Paul G. Weaver
2007
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A hand reaches out
Into the wind,
Now winter-cutting cold.
It beckons to the stranger.
“Be welcome here. Come in.
This night is growing colder
Come in and share
For we have enough.
We see that you have little.”
Head bowed, he entered.
By warmth and caring
Was quickly surrounded
And then one spoke to him.
“You come a stranger,
Yet we have read
Your holy book
And do for you
As it instructed.” -
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Loud voices
Saying, “believe,
Obey,
Love the great,
Honor power,
Accept
Or be outcast.”
Deep within
My small
Soft voice
Whispers
“Love all life,
Live decently,
Be gentle,
Trust yourself
To judge
With compassion.”
Paul G. Weaver
April, 2007 -
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If there be
A consciousness
Beyond our own,
A spirit
Devine,
May it forgive
Those
Who diminish it
With narrowing
Creeds
And the exclusion
Of all
Who hold
Other views,
Or those
Who question
Any or all.
May they
In time
Find the strength
To accept
The mystery
And the wondrous
Beauty
Of an expanding
Soul.
Paul G. Weaver
April, 2007
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To love
Is to be changed,
For there is now
Another in your life,
One whose presence
Influences all decisions
And means as much
To who you are
As you do yourself.
To love means giving up
And gaining so much more.
Expanding your present
Into a forever of tomorrows.
Paul G Weaver
2017 -
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When the sun has set
And the dark winds sing,
Can you find the words
To sing with them?
When the time of moonrise comes,
Can you still see shadows
In the world of night
And send your thoughts
Out past the stars?
When someone offers you
Their soul to hold,
Do you cherish the gift
Beyond all wealth,
Giving your freely
And forever?
Paul G Weaver
2018 -
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I am a tangent.
I am not in the circle,
Not a radius
Or an arc.
In one point only
Do I touch the circle,
No part of the circle.
One point of the infinite.
That, and Im gone.
Paul G Weaver
2018