Troubled seas. Arguments of waves.
Wind screaming at you.
Boat not doing well.
Suddenly an apparition,
possibly a ghost, more impossibly
Christ on the waters.
How can you know? A ghost
would merely scare you;
a fantasy wold rescue you.
No, the real Christ will beckon you
out of your flailing-but-all-you-have boat,
deeper into the storm.
Deeper into trusting,
into holding that hand that holds you,
drowning into your savior.
Then, rising from the birthing waters,
baptized, you climb back into the boat
you no longer need.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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