Smaller

The world keeps getting smaller,

Smaller and smaller

Day by day

Despite the immense earthly resources

God has blessed us with;

He has given us everything

We could possibly want or need

Including eternal life and love

He has provided us libraries of knowledge

Available immediately at our fingertips

Meant to expand our minds and souls

Yet we corrupt these gifts

As we hold onto the smallness

The brokenness

The pettiness

Of self-righteous ego

Manifesting hatred and intolerance through misuse of these treasures

We have made our personal lives so small

Smaller and smaller

As we allow ourselves to be engulfed

In our human mediocrity

Denying ourselves the love

And beauty that surrounds us

Preferring to be proudly suspicious

And self righteously close minded

Proudly labeling it

Safety and security

Who benefits from us being so

Afraid and distrustful?

Who benefits from our smallness?

Wy have we ahllowed ourselves to shrink

To mere shells of what the Divine intended?

Who wants us small?

Who benefits from keeping us

Reduced to such smallness

Who took away the grandness of

Human existence that the Divine blessed us with?

Did we do it to ourselves?

Or have we allowed others to control

The gifts we are all given?

The world is getting smaller day by day

Smaller, smaller, and smaller

- Julie O'Hara 2023

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