Nicodemus said to him,
“How can anyone be born after having grown old?
—John 3.4
I’m sorry. There is no how.
There is no jump, leap, crawl,
climb, push or swim.
There is only allow.
Being born again
isn’t something you can do.
It’s something your mother does
for you.
Breathing in and out
you descend into that dark tomb
that only when you enter
is a womb.
Much you can’t save,
you must shed to fit,
surrender to become
a fracturing seed
like broken bread.
What you leave behind in the grave.
Dying is your only choice,
surrendering your only how.
The rest is gift and mystery,
and God’s work, not yours.
There is only allow.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
March 4, 2020