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The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Time to Laugh

There is no one way
to do something.

You laugh.

But I must remind myself often.
When I was a child
I was given the dead-end idea
perfection is near godliness,
and this godliness
the goal of all humanity.

So now it’s my turn to let go,
to laugh at myself
and at this world.
My life requires little more
than patience and forgiveness,
which through daily practice
and a divine alchemy,
becomes love.

My resentment is weakening.
It cannot live outside my head.
I enjoy watching it
march out the door,
one l-e-t-t-e-r at a time.

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