The First You

Somewhere in you is the you whom you were made to be.

We need you to be you

We don’t need a second anybody

We need the first you

The problem is that the image of God is deeply scarred in each of us, and we lose trust in God’s version of our story….               Rob Bell

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in the depths

in that deepest place

where the Presence of the Sacred is most real

and birthed in our lives

 is our real self

there the child of the Sacred

laughs and smiles

there in joy

it dances

so much lies between that place

and our hearts

our face

our hands

so much time

failure

hurt

disappointment

anger

fear

until that child is almost unreachable

that sacred self

that child of the holy

and yet

as we join with the sacred

as we seek and find union

the child is freed

the Sacred Presence grows

and irresistibly moves through

the scars

to emerge

to see through our eyes

and act through our hands

resurrection