It is like someone who goes on a journey,
who leaves home and puts their workers in charge,
each with their work,
and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.
—Mark 13.34
There is something we’re waiting for—
a newness, yes, a change, and yet,
a return.
What you’re watching for is not a stranger,
but familiar, not someone new, but the one
who rules your household.
It’s not guarding, what you’re doing,
not fearful or protective:
it’s yearning.
Go, then, sit out on that porch and peer
deeper into that darkness: what is
that deepest longing that is given to you?
Honor it.
Let it be the porch light
that draws the Beloved home.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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