sometimes i see jesus as a mushroom
he seeks what is dead
digests it, and turns it into food
for the nourishment, the growth, the healing,
and the life of everyone else
help me to have the courage, and the wisdom, and the peace
to be a mushroom
to seek out what is dead within myself, and within those around me
not to attack it, nor to shy away from it
but to know it deeply, to grow into it
like a mushroom grows into a fallen log
and through that deep knowing, to transform what is dead
into the soil from which life springs