“Lazarus, come out!”
—John 11.43
Something in you has died.
It happens all the time.
Something you clung to,
something beloved.
Maybe a hope, a memory, a gift,
a time, a power, a blessing….
It is no longer.
Jesus didn’t save it.
It’s really gone.
It stinks.
Too late for miracles,
you let it go.
You grieve the loss.
Then
somehow—
only after those tears,
that absence,
that hopelessness—
a voice calls,
“Come out!”
And out of that death,
that loss,
that emptiness,
a mystery comes,
alive.
Even now, then, attend:
what is being called?
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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