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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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A Humble Spirit

...authors new life within us.

A crowd gathers.
It’s a quarter after the hour.
They’ve come full of hope
to see their loved ones anew,
changed by living sober
at this treatment facility.

The stage is set.
A captive audience awaits.
Before weekly visitation
comes my ordinary story.

What can I say
they don’t already know?
How can I speak
to their individual pain,
letting them know
others have it too?
Will I be able to say
what needs to be said,
and to urge them deeper
into the living mystery
within their own being?

A humble spirit
now settles upon us.
Thus the odds are good
God will be joining us.

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