When one offers a request for respect
(reasonable)
one seems to hear a demand for compliance
(white)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When one offers an invitation to consider
(black)
one seems to hear a demand to comply
(unreasonable)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One suspects that somewhere between reasonable offerings
(black)
and unreasonable demands
(white)
there’s a place one meets<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(not just grey, but infinitely colorful,
including all the greys and colors)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(if there’s a space between)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(one has faith and hope
in the space between)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One has faith in respecting the request for respect, and
one has hope in considering the invitation to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Somewhere between
reasonable and unreasonable,
black and white
\u2013as vulnerable as that space might seem\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n
there’s hope that one meets faith there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One might say there’s faith in hope there.
One might hear in hope there’s faith there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The heart is in the space between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"