Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The narrow path

The narrow path

Your wine glass shattered within me,
the jagged edges burning,

the wine drained away.
How to piece together a broken life?

What could make it whole - after You walked through it?
Lead me from these ruins, o Lord.

I remember climbing that yonder Hill -
that's where the blood trail starts.

Lost to the world, lost in the heart-regions
on this narrow, crooked path leading home.

O child of God, your Beloved chose this path for you.
Ordinary life is all of heaven your timid heart can hold.

                                   (from The Garden of Surrender, 2004)

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