Category: lectio divina

2015.06.03: dance of life

“As for the dead being raised, have you not read in the Book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God told him, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? He is not God of the dead but of the living. You are greatly misled.” – Mk 12:26-27

all my life I lived
in a box of my making
rising from darkness

lacing on winged light
my soul leaps into the dance
shall you lead or i

2015.05.31: don’t turn away

“And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” – Jn 28:20

 
i know you now
i know your name
time and time again
i turned to you: avoidance
when the task was too odious
when the road was too lonely
when the pain was too much
and thereby i missed it
the intimacy
the vulnerability
the opportunity
just to be present

that stops now
no longer will i turn away
let it never again be said
that i turned away
let it be remembered forever hence
that it was you who turned away
while my arms remained open
my eyes dried of tears
watching the back of you
walking away

i will call your name
i will remember you
i will regain always
in this moment