A Prayer, A Poem, A Word

I found this and it spoke to me about where we are...trying to embrace God's vision and to allow for older visions that don't resonate to be celebrated and let go.

A long time I have lived with you

And now we must be going

Separately to be together.  

Perhaps I shall be the wind

To blur your smooth waters

So that you do not see your face too much.  

Perhaps I shall be the star

To guide your uncertain wings

So that you have direction in the night.  

Perhaps I shall be the fire

To separate your thoughts

so that you do not give up.  

Perhaps I shall be the rain

To open up the earth

So that your seed may fall.  

Perhaps I shall be the snow

To let your blossoms sleep

So that you may bloom in spring.  

Perhaps I shall be the stream

To play a song on the rock

So that you are not alone.  

Perhaps I shall be a new mountain

So that you always have a home.  

-Nancy Wood, Earth Prayer From Around the World, edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon, 1991.

Of the many things that must change in me so that I may follow Christ, I will celebrate the life of those things that can no longer be for me but that have made me who I am.  It is not easy to leave some things behind but it is even harder for me to refuse to change though I know abundance and love are calling forward.

Rebecca