Examine life's tapestry, Find yourself there. See how the threads of your life Are woven together With those of others. Threads of love and work And tears and laughter Stretch back across the years To ancestors unknown. Friends unmet. Threads newly woven. Tie your cares and hopes To familiar faces And those yet forming Whose threads must still be spun.

Joy and sorrow. Delight and sadness Are entwined in the fabric Of our lives If we could remove A thread of sorrow. Would we not risk unraveling Our joy also? Could we pull out a thread Of pain, without removing The love and compassion That are knotted to it? So.... Let the wheel spin, The shuttle fly: The cloth is whole And we are one. ---Author Unknown--