I am a wanderer. I would say that I am a seeker, but sometimes I have no idea what I might be seeking, so I will stick with wanderer. This blog is more a public journal than anything. I don't claim to have life figured out. I simply stumble from mystery to mystery, and share my reflections along the way. Sometimes I feel burdened, and trudge. Sometimes? Well sometimes grace breaks through, and its time to dance.
Sunday, August 9, 2015
Sometimes I want to Quit
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep
gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
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sometimes I want to quit
just quit
stop
everything
and hide
back in the trees
deck man
sitting sipping coffee
communing with my books
and a random deer or two (or three, or)
I get so tired of the hunger
of the pain and emptiness that seems
everywhere
so many empty souls
so many starving people
snarling and snapping
grasping and tearing for the meager scraps
the world has to offer
but there is within me a deep gladness
that comes from God
there is a light in the darkness
sometimes the light flickers
sometimes
it almost goes out
but it is there a steady
faithful thing (the Sacred One is nothing if not faithful)
beating back the darkness
within
warming and filling my soul
until the gladness becomes
uncontainable
and spills forth
and I am (at least for a moment)
a lamp in the darkness
touching those around me (hopefully)
with love and compassion
and yes
joy
and it is in that moment
that I am in the place
to which
I
am
called
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