The ring of truth

The ring of truth                                        
 
Thank You for all You have given me
and all You have taken away;
 
for remembering me
and for allowing me to remember You.
 
Thank You for wisdom’s ripening;
for the dust of the grave;
 
the shards of my poverty; for the rasp
of the world which has sharpened my longing.
 
Thank You for Your name
and the knowledge of Its significance;
 
for the soul’s dogged progression;
the inevitability of the goal;
 
for the human joy and affliction,
the revelation and mystification
 
which leads ultimately to dissolution,
to the unveiling of the indwelling Self and Union.
 
O child of God, the gratitude you’ve expressed
for years has begun to bear the ring of truth.