Monday, July 20, 2015

Home



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And One Day
You look back
and See

That the seeming Madness
Was always Method

That the Path
Was always going according
to Plan
(Even at its most painful)

By It
You Became
All you needed to Be

For the world
in which you walk,

For the Ones
Who are Longing
For Someone
to
Walk them 
Home

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"...as He is, so are we in this world..."
1 John 4:17

Saturday, July 18, 2015

See




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You are my eyes to See
Those starved to be Seen,

- not seen and judged
as a hireling who knew not the Heart would do,
but Seen with the sight of the holy ones
who stare down these accusers,
who make them drop their stones,
who see and summon the lovely unlikely holiness in others,
as they themselves have been Seen
whose hearts nearly break
under the weight
of the Lover's Love
for His Beloved -

You see through me
those in hiding
too long waiting
for the healing gaze of Grace
to find them,
to fall on them,
as it fell on me...

Thus Seen in this Light,
They
see
Light,
and in turn
are given
Eyes to See

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"In Your Light, we see Light."
-Psalm 36:9

Monday, July 13, 2015

Benediction



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Words
When Spoken
Blessings
Which reach back
and blanket
even the past...

Covering
Protecting
Painting red their night sky

Laying down with them in the dark
Whispering Comfort
Keeping Vigil
Resuscitating
When they're sure they've breathed their last...

Invocation sung softly
Succor for their solitary hour,

in which
as it happens,
they were never
really
alone...

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"I Am with you always"
-Matthew 28:20