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The Mentor

So that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us… so that your love for me may live in them, and I may live in them.” John 17:21;26
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The teacher spoke to us on the way;
opening the door to the building
climbing the steps to the classroom
all the way without taking a breath
talking about science, religion and medicine  

he did not break stride
as we entered the classroom
for his lecture on body-mind-spirit
he kindled in us a fire not to know
what he knows but to be who he is.

You see, we knew he loved us
that is why we loved him,
wanted to be like him. 

He taught a divine spark burst 
into all that is and all that is, is one
all that is, is kin, we are a kindom
not kingdom but kindom. 
There’s no king in a circle of friends. 

“I call you my friends” he said, 
“not students in a pecking order, 
but friends who are free to be 
mutual and reciprocal and beautiful.”

This morning, I looked over your names, you who subscribe to Holy Poetry, and was humbled that you give me the gift of your time. I offered a prayer with the hope the poem does some good.

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