Tuesday, July 14, 2015

An Early Morning Prayer

An ABC in which to contain my life
Before it explodes into disarray
Coming downstairs for a time to write
Day after day by early light
Ending my sleep with a pencil in hand
Free to explore my thoughts
Grief or elation paper will accept
Hope from experience remembered
Inner
Joy
Knows
Love
Memories
Need expression and an
Opportunity to see
Patterns . . . that reveal God as an active character
Questions and narratives
Reveal my 
Story
Tangled up with Jesus'
Up to the window my eyes travel to
View the tree, the sunrise, the storm--my thoughts
Whenever the words onto paper pause
Xray elements of my delight, frustration, curiosity
You, Lord, are central in each stage--Ay to
Zed my heart is drawn back to You


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