Daily Reflections and Worship Resources
You are made for joining,
purposefully incomplete.
As you lace your fingers
we are kept warm.
When you smile your toothy smile
things are brought together.
Whenever I zip you today
remind me:
to let my incompleteness
be my gift,
to let my affection
keep warm this world,
to join the others, embracing,
holding the world together.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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No one can enter a strong man’s house
and plunder his property
without first tying up the strong man;
then indeed the house can be plundered.
—Mark 3.27
The world may seem in the thrall
of a gangster whose henchmen haunt us,
each in our own troubled house,
scaring us into obedient selfishness.
But Jesus the burglar has broken in
to his place and tied up the boss:
grace defeats fear. Gracefully. Like 007.
That whole little kingdom is busted.
And in my own house—
sure, the enforcer lurks, or tries to.
But he too is bound up by love.
I don’t have to fear him.
He sits in my kitchen, cuffed,
tied down, squirming. I smile at him.
Friend, we’re free;
we just have to learn
to trust that.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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