Day 573 – Happiness is sharing…

Day 573 – Happiness is sharing…
Solitary happiness is likely not happiness at all. Happiness has a foundational quality of sharing.

Day 573 – Happiness is sharing…
Solitary happiness is likely not happiness at all. Happiness has a foundational quality of sharing.
To build a proper, healthy community that sincerely heals and moves on from individual past pains, it takes more than just being nice and wishing each other well.
In April 2017, I wrote this poem for an arts’ project / event that we held at my church. The poem was written during a time when I was taken to a deeper level of understanding of what sacrifice and obedience mean.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
“Power don’t come from a badge or a gun. Power comes from lying. Lying BIG and gettin’ the whole damn world to play along with you. Once you got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain’t true, you’ve got ‘em by the balls.”
I vividly recall the first time I–of my own accord and choosing–picked up the one piece of literature (the Bible), that many refuse to believe is a history book…