This is what I have to offer

I could just as easily title this: Good Enough, or maybe No Pretense, or perhaps With Kindness.  There would be some merit in each of these, but they would not be true to the whole.  As a priest and counselor with umpteen years of training and life experience under the bridge or perhaps over the dam, I bring all of it, I draw on all of it.  How do I market myself when one brand name will not fit?  Perhaps this is a question for all of us.  Perhaps.

This is what I have to offer.

It will need

To be good enough.

Anything else

Would be pretense.

I do not thrive

On pretense.

Actually I believe

No one thrives

On pretense.

I offer you this:

Myself, plain and simple,

Simple and plain.

I will tell you what I see,

What I hear,

As much as I can.

I will offer what I know

What I see

What I hear

With kindness shot

Through and through,

Layers upon layers

Of kindness

And still no pretense

That mine is the defining word.

It will need to be

Good enough.

This

This

Is what I have to offer.