
One sojourner’s thoughts on the challenge of faith.
I lie down under the burden
of the courage that I lack
what we cannot see
we readily imagine
I’ve always been a soldier
I did not recognize the war
I am a ruin, only pieces of me stand.
I was a fool and knew only nonsense.
Peeping through the key hole
in someone Else’s dream
In spite of all you’ve said
it’s never been in your hands
I walk by the shore the tide is out
The moon wanes half past blue
I thought I had known agony
least ways had tasted its’ edges
There are no new words that I can write,
No way to change the world tonight
when Life is not always
a merry Tale
Time is not a matter here
in the midnight hour
I felt God alive today
what made the difference
That familiar ache of longing
stings my heart again
my flesh and mind are failing
The Spirit within my only defense
Transparent in my neediness
finds me once again
Vulnerable to the hurt of man
the certain pain begins
I declare you are my strength
The lover of my soul
I surely would have fallen
unless my God had taken hold.
jill autrey [...]