On occasion
a mushroom will shoulder
through asphalt.
Likewise an occasional
blade of grass casts aside
a slab of stone and rises,
not unlike the stories
one hears about Jesus.
And it is every bit
as good a story
and worth celebrating,
even though they
never heard of Jesus
and are only doing
what the living do
when moving
towards light,
against desperate
and impossible odds.
- Claudia Mauro from "Small Women Who Think Big" ©1997
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