Bits and Pieces . . .

People

People important to you

People unimportant to you

cross your life

 touch it with love

and carelessness

and move on.

There are people who leave you

and you breathe a sigh of relief

and wonder why you ever

came in contact with them.

There are people who leave you

and you breathe a sigh of remorse

and wonder why they had to go away

and leave such a gapping hole.

People change homes.

People grow apart.

Enemies hate and move on.

Friends love and move on.

Children change and grow and make choices and move on.

You think of the many people who have moved into your hazy memory.

You look on those present, and wonder.

I believe in the presence of God in our lives.

People move in and out

of one another's lives

and each person leaves

its mark

“its touch”

 on the other.

You find that you are made up of bits and pieces

of all who have ever touched your life,

and you are more because of it,

and you would be less

if they had not touched you.

Pray God that you accept

the bits and pieces in humility and wonder,

and never question

and never regret.

Bits and Pieces
Bits and pieces

author unknown

paraphrased from original