Hug each moment

Live life as if each day is a new lease on life

Look past people's issues and masks

We all have our inner wars no matter our tasks

Always look for the greatness and goodness in people despite any challenging choices

Life is too precious to live in ego's tantalizing distraction

Never wait for the bad to realize what you have and had

Hug each moment and each loved one with passionate gratitude

Live Life as if everything and everyone is a miracle

and Let the blessing of your light make day of darkest night

This New Day

What a privilege it is to open my eyes each day

Never a guarantee but always my mainstay

To find myself in the might of new day's light

Excites within me the fight to reach a new height

I will not excuse myself out of this day's hope

And will climb with passion no matter how steep the slope

If G-d has chosen me to be in this new day

No matter what I face I will make headway

I will open my heart to feel the blessing and miracle

And engage myself fully to to reach the day's pinnacle

Through a lens of Divinely forged gratitude and joy

I will, with humble awe embrace this day with full deploy

Live a life of giving

Live a life of giving for when you give you expand

Giving to another is always giving of yourself

Helping others feel worthy in living

A life of giving shows you are always in need

For there is no day that has too many a good deed

So even if you do not have much

And all you might have is a good word to give

Know that because of you someone might choose to live

No one can promise what for you will be

But when you give with a full heart

No matter how bleak things may seem

For some reason you keep going

As in living a life of giving you know even if you cannot explain

That you are igniting a flame that keeps the light of life burning strong

So that you can still see and grab onto the life that can be when it is meant to be.

Count Your Blessings

How do you go a day without counting your miracles & blessings

For even if you believe them to be few and far between

only when you count then are they truly seen

Never let them out of your sight

For they are the reasons you continue to fight

And the words of your Thankfulness

Lead to the actions of your gratitude

Which infuses meaningful life into your attitude

I Can

I will always learn to see and seek what I can

For to focus on what I cannot is to impose on myself a ban

I want to open my eyes to more than now

replacing I cannot with I can allows me to find out how

Allowing me to become aware of G-d's surrounding Wow

I can unleashes the authentic me

The only way I have a chance to be free

For it catapults me forward more than any word

Leading to action that keeps me significant and never lost in the herd

The blessing to be able to be what I can is a clear sign

That no matter what I need never resign my Divine design

No Excuse

Hashem I resolve to no further excuse myself from life
I do not want to be the harbinger of needless strife

How captivating the temptation of a comforting excuse
that distracts me into a life draining ruse without any enduring use

Hashem I know that excuse can be another word for fear
but I start to realize that at times to succeed you need to shed a tear

Excuses limit what I am open to believe
Convincing me that this is all I will ever achieve

Hashem I see now that excuses are no more than comfort zone glue
Keeping me from living a life that is authentic and true

Excuses remain words and reasons lead to meaningful action
which paves the way to my life's enduring satisfaction

I hug this day

Hashem I hug this day that you have given me
I am in awe of all that I did see
I mourn that which I miss
Yet grateful for all Your gracious bliss
I transcend the obstacle to see the miracle
Full of prayer that this night is a herald of a new morning's light

The Metaphor

The power of the metaphor is of legend and lore

As we give it life when it is illusion and nothing more

The power of the metaphor to many seems to be law

For when used it is accepted as a closed door

When we can see that metaphor is not a destination

but rather a vehicle that goes in the direction of our mind's location

We can change the script to empower a mind state

So life can go forward before it is too late

Horizons

Horizons are elastic for they expand

More is the pity when we do not lift a hand

Due to choices that blind making life seem bland

For we miss out on so much around us that is so grand

So let us pause and give ourselves the time to think and see

That there is more to life than just me

And so we find the space to become more than we ever thought we could be

The Light Within Your Sight

Many seem to focus on what they have lost

Hanging on to the past no matter the cost

It is easier for many to shout and complain
For much is the work needed to find what one can gain

It less of an effort to look at others and judge
For then from our comfort zone we need not budge

We blame others for the place where we now live
Losing sight of our value and what we have to give

To wallow and drown in needless self derision
makes each day feel like a painful incision

So maybe it is time to stop and pause
And consider that excuses are connected to the cause

Learn to love yourself for the right reason
As G-d continues to do no matter life's season

The World you see is the world in which you believe
Look from another angle and amaze yourself by what there is to receive

Make the journey from expectation to appreciation then overnight
Life is no longer a given but a gift whose light is now within your sight

For 50 years

For 50 years you have been married

For 50 years your love has carried

For 50 years you have been together

For 50 years no matter the weather

For 50 you have given your all

For 50 years so that your family and others may stand tall

For 50 years you have been there

For 50 years even when we were not aware

For 50 years you have shown more than love

For 50 years clearly blessings from above

For 50 years such legendary family devotion

For 50 years inspiring us into motion

For 50 years living by example

For 50 years engaging life fully and not a sample

For 50 years you encourage and empower

For 50 years always there no matter the hour

For 50 year giving and continuing to care

For 50 years greatness beyond compare

For 50 more years may G-d grant us the blessing of your light

For 50 more years may G-d grant you a delectable life enjoying each unique bite

Never purport....

Never purport to know the sort

For then it truth it is with yourself that you do court

Put your efforts in rehabilitating your thought

Then life until now will not have been for naught

The more you invest in trying to change another

The more it becomes clear that it is you who are the bother

Spend more time releasing your authentic light

Then others may realize that they too are worth the fight

You Never Know...

You never know what hides behind a person's face

You have no inkling of how they fill their inner space

You will never be fit enough to run their race

Be there in the crowd to help and cheer

So they see your smile whenever they fear

Show them that they always had the gold

So they keep on running finding that it is not the medal but what they choose to hold