Peter got out of the boat,
started walking on the water,
and came toward Jesus.
—Matthew 14.29
Huge writhing sea
tiny scared boat
all you have to hang onto
You sense something
Someone
in the waves, or on them
Coming halfway to you
beckoning you
out of the safeboat
into the chaos
dark swirling deep
moving undulating errantly
(and beneath the green black water
a vast stillness
a great dark emptiness)
but here disruption the pitch and heave
no footing no handhold
only the voice
with you a presence
more solid
than the waves
that calls you
reaches out to you
holds you
Forever now
everything you do
is reaching for that voice
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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