He withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven.
—Luke 24.51
How dare he?
Just up and leave?
How hard to admit:
Christ is not ours.
There is an else-ness to them,
a beyondness we can’t comprehend.
The Anointed One belongs to something greater,
and is not ours.
For a time they have made themselves
as small as he could,
but now we see how infinite the Beloved is.
And if we have listened to what he said
while he walked among us so we could hear,
we would see this in every soul,
for none is apart from this whole.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
—May 29, 2019