Tag: Growing

I hope you’ve enjoyed the previous quotes and poems I’ve posted here. This will be the last ‘Thought for the Month’ that I will offer.

If you would grow by Daniel F. Mead

If you would grow to your best self

 Be patient, not demanding

 Accepting, not condemning

 Nurturing, not withholding

Self-marveling, not belittling

 Gently guiding, not pushing and punishing

 For you are more sensitive than you know

 Mankind is as tough as war yet delicate as flowers

 We can endure agonies but we open fully only to warmth and light

And our need to grow is as fragile as a fragrance dispersed by storms of will

 To return only when those storm are still

 So, accept, respect, and attend your sensitivity

 A flower cannot be opened with a hammer.