There are some times in life that just need the light of hope. At New Years, I helped give a retreat at Genesis Spiritual Life Center in Westfield, MA; that experienced was blessed. Not only did it provide a prayerful pause for retreatants, but it also gave me a chance to look back on my year with new eyes, eyes of hopeful reflection and grace-filled review. What I came across as I prepared my remarks was a poem from this past summer that I never published. It didn't strike me as something I necessarily should until someone asked for the title of the poem during my talk and I gave it to them only to think to myself- "they're going to search that title and never find the words that go with it!"
Written before my reflections on brokenness & Christmas, "In a bar room booth & hospital bed, 6-16-16" dwells on the way light comes through even in the darkest moments and how Light is being born in us and around us all the time. God is
waiting to be found- in people... in places... in moments.
Coming to that realization and finding these words was a grace. I give thanks for it and for the gift of relationships that fill my heart and soul. May you find those moments in these dark days and let their light shine in all you are and do.
In a bar room booth & hospital bed, 6-16-16
What is that moment
when you realize
that all your love
is caught up
not just in moments
but in the people
who inhabit them
And one small glance
One tiny nod
One heartfelt laugh
unleashes the floodgates
of a life and love you
long for and belong to.
That moment is a gift
and like all the gifts
of love we must do our best
to savor it.
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