Finished

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So much ground covered

Soul searing soil which seemed insurmountable

Terrain which towered over us

Heartbreaking in its apparent invincibility...

But look behind,

See,

This Way we thought impossible

impassable

utterly implausible

Now threaded with our footsteps

taken one by one

by one

by one...

and Finally,

It Is Finished.....

Now,

It Begins...

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"Eye has not seen, nor has ear heard, nor has the mind of man conceived 

the things which God has prepared..."

-1 Corinthians 2:9

The Last Word

"In The Beginning was The Word"

John 1:1

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The Word

Which became Light

Which dealt the deathblow to darkness

In The Beginning

Still speaks

Still shines

Still writes on our lives

Authoring and Finishing

Our Story

in

Light

The deepest night

is no match

for this Dictum

The Word goes deeper still

In The Beginning

In The Middle

In The End

Light will have The Last Word

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"I AM The Alpha and the Omega,

The Beginning and The End,

says the Lord God,

He Who Is

and Who was

and Who Is To Come,

The Almighty

The Ruler of All."

-Revelation 1:8

...Let there be Light, a Hanukkah blessing...

"Let There Be Light"

-Genesis 1:3

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The lengths we will go

to procure this primal need

even synthesizing it

with phones, tv's, trifles,

these cubic zirconia counterfeits of what was given "In The Beginning"...

which fall into our stomachs, our base appetites,

but miss our Hearts entirely, where the true Hunger lies...

The True Treasure

Buried under the impedimenta of our lives

Waits for the soul, the seeker

who will not settle for 

smoke and mirrors...

Our deepest selves Know,

and still seek Him

and will not be satisfied

with sparkly substitutions

ersatz ephemeral fulfillment...

We Hear, through the din of false diamonds

True Light

Tireless Beacon Calling us Home

Bidding us Follow His Voice

Out of darkness,

Into our 'Let There Be' Beginning...

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"What you seek

Is Seeking You."

-Rumi

Faith

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Remember what was shown you

The Glimpse Given your Eyes-To-See

on the Mount

those High Places

that Day...

Hold to Heaven's View

Gifted you

Choose the Lens that Lifted you

that Lifts you

that will Lift you

into Landscape intended all along

Navigate by this View

Do not settle for the simple way

the base elements

ubiquitous

easily attained

Hold to Wings, My Love

Hold to High Places

Choose the Way where there seems to be no way

The Sacred Ground your beautiful feet

were Created to traverse...

Lift your eyes, Love

Raise your sights once again...

Faith, My child!

Faith!

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"We walk by faith, not by sight"

2 Corinthians 5:7

Dew

"I will be like the dew to Israel."

-Hosea 14:5

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A gentle thing

An Annointing

Arrives quiet

Anticlimactic

After such a Long night...

Such a Long

Long

Night

Settles, feather down soft

Soaking

Covering in halcyon Healing

Culling deep Grief

Barest Touch tending to

the bloody blows endured

merciless, devilish destruction

and dark deeds done

finally spent

Silenced

Displaced by this Delicate Dictum

Blanketed in this,

Morning's Benediction.

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"The night is far spent"

-Romans 13:12

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I Love you.

-God

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