When many of his disciples heard it, they said,
“This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?”
—John 6.60
Jesus,
I am not so weak as to need platitudes,
though I savor them.
Give me the difficult sayings—
hard to understand,
harder to trust.
Wedge my heart out of its ruts.
Free me from my smug understanding.
Threaten my sure disbelief.
Unbalance me so I have to lean into you.
I know you’ll catch me when I fall.
(Faith is not the high-wire; it’s the falling.)
Beloved, teach me to accept what is hard,
to trust what is given,
and to keep at it.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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