Only an invitation

Our world is so full of conditions —
demands, requirements, and obligations
that we often wonder what is expected of us.
But when we meet a truly free person
[a truly giving person]
there are no expectations,
only an invitation
to reach into ourselves
and discover there
our own freedom.

Members of the same human family

Only when we have the courage to cross the road and look in one another's eyes can we see there that we are children of the same God and members of the same human family.