These are they who have come out of the great ordeal;
they have washed their robes
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
—Revelation 7.14
In the shadowed valley
despite all cruelty
they have submitted
to a mighty kindness,
opened themselves
to a breath flowing
through them for others,
an eternal river
that will find its way,
even through death.
It has torn much away—
for some their very bodies—
but the life can’t be stopped,
this river that bears them in love.
They have been brought through.
They are changed.
There is nothing they cannot touch.
Though they seem to have lost everything,
and appear torn—dead, even—
the light is still in them,
and the breath, and the song,
singing.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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