Monday of Week 20 Ordinary Time . 16 August

apfel
If you wish to be perfect.
Go and sell what you own.
It’s a lot harder to give than collect.
Not to see everything we give as a loan.

The commandments are possible.
Save this, the hardest.
It is perhaps all too biblical.
It’s all too easy to lose our zest.

Like the young man.
We go away sad.
It is just too short, our span.
Even if we never actually go bad.

But we can try a little.
And not allow ourselves to be too brittle.

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Give away our all
The most difficult of all
But we can just try

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See Matthew 18:19-22