A Daily Affirmation (from POZ magazine, February/March 2001)

I am grateful today to be alive.
Let me live each moment of this day attentively,
consciously and intentionally, with an open mind
and an open heart.
This day let my hopes for healing of mind, body
and spirit become visible in my life.

I am grateful for my body, for each breath I draw,
for the blood in my veins, for the cells of which I
am composed.
May I treasure this body with every act of eating,
breathing, sleeping, feeling, lovemaking,
exercising, and with every pill I ingest.

I am grateful for the people I know and have
known, friends and lovers living and dead, those
I love and see, and those I love and no longer
see; for love that is stronger than death and for
love that never ends.

Each day help me to connect with the diversity of
human creation, young and old, positive and
negative, every race, gender and orientation.
Keep me passionate and engaged in creating a
world of justice, free from prejudice and poverty,
where everyone is valued, loved and free.

May my awareness of mortality inspire me to live
abundantly, here and now.
May I live in expectation of a cure for HIV in my
lifetime.

Let my life be a prayer, my dreams a reality.
-J.M.

World aids Day

Thank God for the ministries of:

The more than 21.8 million lives cut short by aids.
The more than 36.1 million people who are living with aids/hiv.
The caregivers, family, and frieds of people with aids/hiv.
The Doctors and nurses caring for people with aids/hiv.
The researchers looking for a cure.
For all us as we find hope on this day.

Through the Bible in a year:
Acts 21-22
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2021-22&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada