GOD IN OUR MIDST
"… for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike.” – Lk. 10:21
When I was a young adult, I lived in a small, rural community where my friends considered me to be “wise and learned” because I was more educated than they were. On one hand, I rather liked the idea of being wise and learned, but on the other hand, I didn’t want this to separate me from my friends. Besides, I could see quite clearly that they understood the things that were essential even better than I did because of their connection to the everyday reality of life as opposed to my connection to the intellectual and theoretical ideas of life. Moreover, it is in the everyday reality of life that we find God.
Mist
Relentlessly present;
surrounding my life
without walls
You are here,
always
here,
but obscured
by the mist
of my own
desires and expectations
as I grope through
this rocky cliff-hung life.
How clearly I see
through someone else’s mist
the way so bright,
so straight,
so smooth
in my eyes.
Sadly, for my own,
too often I have preferred
the mist
or denied its existence.
Still
You are here,
surrounding my life
without walls;
You are here,
always
here.
Today
I see You.
That is You, right?
Sharon Sullivan