flight

 

 

 

* * *

 

once upon a time

there was a girl

who was Loved so well

that she Became

Wings

 

her beloved watched over

her waking and sleeping

he bore her

and bathed her

in morning light

and moonlight,

he kissed her with the kisses of his mouth

he told her stories of the

Great Wide World

and showed her

how to See

Beauty

in

Everything...

 

...together they walked

Hinds' Feet on High Places...

 

he poured himself,

his very spirit,

into hers

all that he had,

all that he was,

till the two could not be told apart

till they could never be divided...

so that he would

always

be with her....

 

...*always*.....

 

....then,

he bid her,

to trade tangible shore,

to trust invisible Wind,

to leave terra firma for terra incognita,

 

to let go,

 

and Fly...

 

...she rose, higher and higher

with trembling heart

trembling wings

lifted on the breath

of his bitter-sweet benediction

to Be

to Become

all that he knew she could be

for a world

who had yet to See

His Beauty......

 

 

 

  ....Fly with me...

 

 

 

* * *

 

"Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away"

-Song 2:10

Dandelion

 

 

 

*

 

I have been Blown

like a Dandelion seed

and felt myself floating

(fearfully, grasping for familiarity,

for something to hold on to

for the Dandelion that so gently held me

then let me go...)

 

But

Quiet now...

 

I See

 

That the Wind will carry me

to New Ground

 

Where the Life of the Dandelion

that bore me

will be born...

 

I am to be planted

and Become

not just one tiny seed...

 

But a Beautiful Blossoming Field,

 

a Whole,

Dazzling,

Delightful Array,

 

of

 

Dandelions...

 

***

 

"Now, oh Lord, what do I wait for and expect...

My hope and expectation

is in You."

-Psalm 39:7

In Spirit

 

"...though I am away from you in body

yet I am with you In Spirit"

-Colossians 2:5

 

 

*

 

 

Come now, My love,
and Rest for awhile
out of the cold and the bitter winds
out of the windiness and the wild...

I Am the fire which warms you
I Am the breath on your ear
telling you,
whispering
that All really is Well...

Zoom out from your narrow view
on life as it seems
and See what Is

Let it go now, My love
Let it go
Relax your tight hold
and feel, instead,
that you are Held...

.....all the plans, people, possessions you father
are in your Abba's Loving Hands...

Oh Beloved of Mine
Feel yourself now,
enveloped in Me
in Love,
in Rest...

...and Know
in this moment
as Mary did,

The Secret
The One Thing:

I AM with you

I AM with you

I AM with you
 

 

 *

 

 

"Nothing in all of creation

can separate us from the love of God..."

-Romans 8:39

Gratitude

 

***

 

thank You,

 

for my Life

exactly how it is,

 

for what has gone before

exactly as it was,

 

for the riches

of my past

folded beautifully into my present...

 

thank You

 

thank You

 

thank You.

 

***

 

"goodness and mercy follow me

every day of my life."

-Psalm 23:6



Prodigal's Prayer - a haiku

 

 

 

+

 

I ran, far and wide

and ended up with ashes...

now Your will be done

 

+

 

"...beauty for ashes..."

-Isaiah 61:3

 



relay

 

 

 

^~+

 

 

this is where we hope that

Prayer hits the road and sticks the landing,

that everything we've been taught and believed holds true...

 

That it's when we're outta cards,

God delights in slipping us aces

(I realize the potential perception of sacrilege there,

relegating God to the role of card-shark-in-the-sky....

why do I not think He minds at the moment?)

 

That when we've fumbled and bumbled

with our broken pieces,

with spit and glue

with a wing

and a prayer

(and maybe not even so much the wing)

when we've taped and patched

and plugged and pasted

and in general exceeded our

cosmic supply of duct tape

not to mention our quota of

flailing, thrashing, and gnashing of teeth...

 

...when we've thrown our hands up in the air

and given up entirely

(for the fourteenth time - no-really-this-time)...

 

 

That God Steps In.

 

 

to be continued......

 

 

~+/\

 

 

"Stand still and see the salvation of your God."

-Exodus 14:13

broken

 

 

 

*

 

broken cisterns

cannot hold water

 

broken baskets

cannot carry bread

 

broken hinges

cannot open doors

 

broken lanterns

cannot light a room.....

 

 

.....but the break of dawn

can light up the world

 

 

broken ground

can yield a harvest

 

broken bread

can feed so many

 

broken roads

still lead somewhere

 

and broken hearts,
in spite of themselves,

can still hold Love...

 

 

...mysteries of the universe......

 

 

*

 



unbroken...

 

 

*+*

 

...maybe

sometimes

life being cyclical

our beginnings

and endings

overlap...

our comings

and goings

indistinguishable,

one and the same...

 

...in Nature's Rorschach test

is a shattered seed

an end

or a beginning?

what about a broken cocoon?

a birth?

or even a death....

 

Even God

is

at once

Alpha

and Omega...

 

for me this duality,

dispels fear of finality,

 

and I find myself

looking

 

in The End

 

for The Beginning

 

*+*

 

"from the first to the last, I AM He."

Isaiah 41:4

 



Redemption - two haikus

 

 

 

+

 

All is never lost;

The Ring was given again

to the prodigal

 

+

 

second chance?  no, friend;

seventy times seventh chance...

my Redeemer lives

 

+



2014

 

 

*

 

"The land is like the Garden of Eden before them,

and behind them

a desolate wilderness."

 

-Joel 2:3

 

 *

In the Beginning...

 

 "forgetting the things which are behind,

reaching forward to the things that are ahead,

I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call

of God in Christ Jesus."

-Philippians 3:13, 14

 

*

 

back turned

to back doors and bridges

which promise safe passage

into the past...

that never never land

which no longer exists...

 

eyes fixed like flint

on what is forward

what is for real

the Gift you have for me

and have for me to be...

 

sure-footed, walking

into Future's fallow ground

my very footsteps making fertile the soil,

seeding each day with the Seed Himself

till death defers

and Life becomes

the defining characteristic

of this Landscape...

 

As it was In The Beginning...

make it so In This Beginning,

 

Let there be Light

once again...

 

....and let it change

 

Everything

 

*

 

"Here am I, my Lord;

Send me."

-Isaiah 6:8