Imperfect World, Happy Balance

I copied this (with permission, of course) from ‘Sorry, no heaven’, one of the blogs I am following.

I feel blessed

and in a state of perpetual grace

not because only good things happen 

but because all things happen, 

and we are breathing.

Sad things happen, 

and there are accidents 

and evil people 

and suffering. 

These are our teachers

and these are the realities of the world

that have to be embraced for good or bad,

for better or worse, 

in sickness and in health 

the sacred marriage vows 

between man and his imperfect universe.

- Ruth Ostrow

Selected from ‘Chatter Poems’