Knowing

I love to teach

I love to share

I love to encourage

I love to hear myself speak truth

I love to proclaim

I love to say what I know,

Knowing what I know

May change in the next moment.

I know so much that I don’t know,

Not knowing no longer frightens me,

Not knowing forms the ground of any knowing I might claim.

I know, too, that you know

Far more than you admit.

I want to be the one you tell it to, finally, or

For the first time.

No longer threatened by your knowing, or your not knowing.

Hiding what we know is selfish

Denying what we know is foolhardy

Ignoring what we know is perilous

Forcing what we know is arrogant

Gratitude for what we know is security.