Silently now


Silently now,
I wait for thee...
Ready my Lord,
Thy will to see,
Open my eyes,
Illumine me,
Spirit Divine.
-Old Hymn                                                     



I have stilled myself, like a baby weaned of its mother's breast. In a deep calmness...waiting for your voice in the silence.

These are quiet times..times of unraveling as much as times of restoring. My time of reconciliation, of realization that I am so-so incomplete. Unable. Needy. Vulnerable.

There are chasms within my soul. Deep recesses. Gashes. Areas usually glossed over by the days of busyness and hidden away my moments of madness. 

But in silence, like the melting of the snow on a warm summer day, I lie exposed. Unhidden. Just as I am.

As I am, I am open. Yet willing. To listen.

To the still clear voice.

The voice in the desert, the voice in the wilderness, the voice of the One who has life, who is Life. Who is the Truth. The only absolute Truth. Beyond my own shades of grey, the only clear clear Light. The Alpha and The Omega. The beginning and the end.

The Redeemer.

To You, I will lie exposed, vulnerable, unhidden, Just as I am.

As I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded, 

that He is able, to keep that which I have committed, exposed, given up, let go, unhidden......

I know He is able to restore, revive, make complete, make completely whole...all the pieces of the puzzle...all the of threads of time and place...of all the hurts and sorrows...all the uncertainties

And fill up all the recesses, chasms, depths of every unanswered question...

that glorious glorious day.

And till such a day, let me stay...

Silently Now!




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