Then their eyes were opened,
and they recognized him,
and he vanished from their sight. — Luke 24.31
Searching among the ruins of your failures,
the gravestones marking your losses,
preserving your sins,
you will not find your Beloved.
Among the sad stories carved in stone
of what you should have been,
you will not find the Holy One.
Trying to understand, you won’t be able to grasp.
Even in your brightest moments,
as with a falling star,
the light cannot be held.
Your Redeemer is not entombed in the past.
but here, in this beating moment.
And then not.
Not waiting for you to notice,
the One Who Is With You
is no longer in that moment just past,
but has gone into the next.
How we have to keep awakening
and awakening.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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