Before they call I will answer,
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
—Isaiah 65.24
My beloved,
you do not have to call out to me,
that I may hear you through clouds of distance,
across the great chasm of strangeness
between human and divine.
To me you do not call out, but in.
I am within you, in your deepest heart.
Within your joys and worries,
your strengths and wounds, I am there.
Your shouts of hope are my voice in you.
Your cries of despair, your pleas for grace,
are my longing in you.
Far beneath your understanding
there cries an unmet soul-hunger,
an unfinishedness like baby birds, beak up,
in the closed-in silence that finds no words,
but burns, heavy within you, yearning:
that is my spirit.
Your prayers give voice
to your hearing me hear you.
Beloved, before you love,
I am your Love.
Before you pray,
I am already your answer.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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