We do not attain anything by our own holiness but by ten thousand surrenders to mercy. A lifetime of received forgiveness allows us to become mercy. -Richard Rohr-

Ten thousand surrenders to mercy

One. 

When I experience
the nine 
thousand
nine 
hundred 
ninety
nine
ways
you find 
to show me that

You are as I made you-
wondrous and full of grace…
and yes, also challenge…
and full of becoming and oh,
I do love you.

When I experience that
and those ways—
all of them…
and smile.

And,

When 
that and those ways—
the experiences—
come and 
a smile 
does not
yet 
still,
I open
I listen
I say yes…

That’s
two.

Kimberly M. King