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Awakening:  The Journey

A Wrinkle In Time
Doubt
Journey

 

A Wrinkle in Time

I read it, and I could not understand it
    Darkness
    claiming others for its own
and then I found it breathing 
    deep within me,
    Light uncast and shadowed into stone.

In fear I ran and screamed and shook it from me,
In grief and anger wrestled angels down,
In shame I hid and let it overcome me
    falling stars too far from hallowed ground.

I lived it and I could not understand it
    Darkness
    that wore the face of Light
until in sheer exhaustion I embraced it
    and found myself embraced by holy Night.

 

Doubt

Doubt, you dusty pile of dry bones
quit your rattling
I'm not coming back.

Either receive God's breath
or go to dust entirely
makes no difference to me.

I'm happy here
up high
in the land of my soul.

 

Journey

I was broken
    and clung to my brokenness
    not believing any other way to be

I was not
    and dwelt in nothingness
    nestled doubt within my misery

God called 
    I yearned to answer
    shame blocked my mouth, my eyes, my ears

God loved
    and shame was lifted
    grace lit my soul and shone out through my fears

God called
    doubt kept me silent
    dusty bones a rattling restraint

God breathed
    and doubt transfigured
    shone light and darkness through my mind's
         complaint

God called
    and I turned to listen   
    found grace, belief and love to make me whole

God called 
    at last I followed
    and settled
    in the land of my soul
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Many of these words were born or conceived on silent retreat at a place called Naramata Centre.  If any of this has touched you or called you to a sacred moment, please consider giving a small gift so that Naramata Centre can maintain this ancient sacred space, and the programs offered there.
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