I am grateful

The question of what real goodness is 
and how I experience it 
is always in front of me.

It is here now within me as I sense myself.
I sense myself in this body, 
which is a temporary gift I have been given 
to live in this world.

And I come back to it now 
in a relationship that is different 
than my usual automatic relationship.

I come back to it as a friend, 
as a companion, even as a mentor.
For the body teaches me how to be in this world 
and live on this earth.
And it even teaches me how to accept this life.

And I see for a moment that it becomes this teacher 
and lives within this teacher
to bring a teaching of goodness that I don't understand.

For the body in its relationship to earth 
and its relationship to the sun and even the entire cosmos 
is one tiny particle of the whole goodness 
which is here now within being 
and through which all things comeinto existence.

So the essence of goodness flows in here through the body.
And if I come into a better, more intimate, more precise, 
and more caring relationship with it,
then this goodness grows suddenly
like a seed that has just sprouted 
because the rains have come and the temperature is good.

And that goodness bursts forth within me 
from the tiniest parts of my being.
The energy of creation that fills me begins to open a door 
to sensation of true goodness.
And now, here in this relationship with the body, 
true goodness, a property of the cosmos itself, 
is no longer so much of a thought or an idea or a theory.

I begin to see from this place 
that true goodness exists in everything, 
everywhere, at all times.

And that I, in my narrow understanding 
and in the tiny range of my vision, 
have just failed to see it here as it is now.

Even though I have these magnificent and unusual senses within me 
that are from the beginning intended 
to help me see and sense and feel goodness.

Now I see and sense and feel goodness;
and a corresponding relationship arises with it.

A great peace.

Above all, I am grateful.