Behold the Lamb of God
who takes away the sin of the world!
—John 1.29
We wander in a desert of disconnection,
our voices wrestled to the ground
by the silence of a ghastly solitude.
We believe our aloneness. We fear it.
We clamber atop it, and everyone else’s,
climbing a mound of bones, a ladder of grief.
O Tender One, you name and forgive
our worst mistakes, lay a divine, wounded hand
on the loneliest part of us, and find us in each other.
You stay beside us till we know we’re not alone,
but held, adored, belonging.
You receive our hate, yet evoke our love.
O gentle Lamb, you undo our exile and its fear,
and we are saved. We are free.
We are here.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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