Once Upon Time
This page is about Sainthood–Sainthood in my book, anyway. The prime criterion for Sainthood, seems to me, is Kindness. So I surround my four modest acrosticized lines with eight of the Kindest people I know, and I draw two of them.
Here are the words to the acrostic:
O Saints who call Urchins ma cher/mon petit
No matter if helping O. Twist or Pu Yi
Come teach us a lesson on living a Dream
Enfolded in Kindness with Love as its theme
Here are the people I’ve listed:
Judy Green-Davis
Jack Evans
Charlene Sims
Dick Wilkinson
Diane Norrbom
Cary Stoneman
Barbara Mills
Brian Bowers
Judy, either about to be ordained or just ordained, is married to Jack, “the Godfather of Phoenix poetry,” who’s been a volunteer at an assisted living center and who hosts both poetry events and movie viewings. Charlene, also known as Starry Bright, taught me an important lesson in empathy with her blog post about the three gatekeepers we need before we say anything. Dick Wilkinson is a ninety-two-years-young philosopher and raconteur, gentle and wise. Diane Norrbom is one of our family matriarchs and a goddess of nurturing. Cary stood by me and calmed my nervousness on my wedding day, December 10, 1988, and has given of himself to family and friends numberless times before and since. Barbara, also known as Hobbit, has made a career of elementary-school teaching, and her poetry reveals extraordinary depths of wisdom and caring. Brian, my brother both biologically and spiritually, nursed our grandfather in the last months of his life, comforting a dying man in great pain as no other could. Whatever I can do to honor these fine people, it’s not enough.
One with Clay, Image and Text 
Reblogged this on paarsurrey and commented:
Paarsurrey says: Kindness is a characteristic that makes one human.
Our one true creator God is All-Kind. He is generous, charitable, benevolent and, forgiving.
He is introduced to us in the Quran of His attributive being in the very first verse of Quran which has been repeated about 113 times in the beginning of the Suras/Chapters and once in the regular text. The attributes of Rahman and Rahim which have been mentioned in it have been expressed several more times in Quran.
I give the verse here:
[1:1] In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Read: Short English Commentary | Detailed English Commentary | Urdu Tafaseer اردو تفاسیر
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=1
Other synonyms used for the world Gracious above are All-Kind, Most-Beneficent, Benevolent and Most-Forgiving is also one of His attributes.
This is how humans become one-in-God; when they express these attributes in their characters; they are attired in kindness and love with one another and also love the one true God.
Thank you for an enlightening perspective. All-Kind does describe an apotheosis for me, all right!