![]() ![]() Your hands kept grasping.It was your heart that stopped, there in the cave.Your companions in the dark were the smells of earth and water, on either side of you, underneath you, hovering over you. You didn’t know how you did it, how you dragged your body through another day, another moment, another breath. Of course it did.You got up again, knees buckling and bloody from the fall, and you kept walking. It’s what you had been running from, but it outran you in the end. But when it came, it was violent, and it knocked you down. Gasping, you slowed.You stumbled, you fell.You hid, you mumbled.Your tears escaped, of course they did the breach let them out.The damn breach.You saw it coming. Long enough I’ve carried this ton of trouble, lived with a stomach full of pain.** * *You walked and then you ran. I’ve looked at the back of your head long enough. Long enough, God- you’ve ignored me long enough. ![]() Spittle covers my beard, and Light plays a cruel game of hide and seek, only I cannot find her. They surround me and I inhabit them, and they inhabit me.When it is time to learn something new, I climb mountains and like Moses, I receive sacred words on tablets of stone I hold them, I break them.When I sense the tides of change beckoning me, I wade into rivers, and like Jacob, I leave behind what I was and swim towards what I might be.When I cannot bear it any longer, I escape to the wilderness, and like Elijah, I lay down, I sleep, and I am nourished.When I am exposed and need covering, I look for the garden, for shade and for hope, and like Adam and Eve, I search for new beginnings.And sometimes I find myself lost in caves, like David. They rise to meet me and they stoop to find me, they lead me and they follow me. They paint pictures of a God who at times overwhelms me with love, at other times eludes me with silence.It’s the landscapes – the mountains, the deserts, the gardens, the rivers and the caves – to which I am drawn they tell my own story of hope and doubt, of climbing and falling, of searching and losing. They remind me that I’m not the only human being that has gone through whatever confusing thing I find myself going through. ![]() They help me make sense of the Bigger Story when I myself have lost the plot. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I read the Scriptures primarily because they paint expansive pictures of what’s happening in my own soul, which sometimes soars and sometimes plummets. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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