Onward

 

 

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Squinting into the haze ahead

Straining to see a semblance of...something...

Tentative letting go
of threads which tether me to what I know...

 

My once courageous heart recoils

leaning back into a leek and onion legacy...

preferring marginalism to manna

the monotony of the perceivable

to the miracle of parting seas

 

But His unswerving vision

sees the forest in spite of the trees

He knows the way I take

And is determined I should take it

 

For all my looking back
and the lure of illusory retreat

There is nothing now

but a pillar of cloud

and a Red Sea
in which yesterday is drowned

 

The past is no longer a viable port

and so I press on

into Unseen
and Unknown,

Trusting this Hand that Shepherds me on

to one day lead me
Home

 

-E.A.A. "Hindsfeet"  1/11/13

 

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"I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them."

-Isaiah 42:16