Rising with the sun

Serving to the end

Passionately restored

First to see

Know

And believe

Witnessing to the world

So that I

You

Might too know

And believe

Christ has Risen

Dare to enter the tomb

See

Feel

And know for yourself

Alleluia alleluia

Christ is risen

Wondering how to be Graced?

Believe

Receive

Open your heart as wide as your arms

this past week while treating a Syrian Refugee family in my dental practice, I re learned the value of community.  Essentially there is little to no money to properly meet their dental needs which are immediate, acute and chronic.  I was attempting to treat all their needs myself, but I found myself in over my head.  I called an oral surgeon, and an endodontist (root canal specialist) and they agreed to see them and treat them for free, because I was.  I since learned that 2 other dentists in my community are treating other Syrian refugee families for nothing because I was and because as I see it, it is simply the right thing to do!

 

Darkness is the absence of light

Evil is the absence of good

There are times

When the Light

Is clouded by

Stresses of our own making

Clouded thoughts

Obscure the Light

stumbling

Trying to create an artificial light

That mimics

But it neither illumines

Nor guides

But slides into

Independent

Self-aggrandizement

I need no one

…. Easier, faster, I’ll just do it myself

Alluring truth

often

Self martyrdom

Perhaps is the

Fear of truly being known

Fear of disappointment

Fear of facing the darkness that lies within

In Christ

Is community

Self is laid down

Weaknesses held by each other

Vulnerable

Interdependent

Needing each other

In Christ

With God

The Spirit unites

There we can be bound together

And The Light

Illumines our path

God in the silence

Speaks

In moments

Of stretching alone-ness

And pain-filled despair

When life crushes in

And hope seems impossibly far away

God’s words cannot be heard

Only felt

Calling

Us to speak of the pain that threatens

And then to sit in the silence

Letting your mind roam through the dark corners of soul

And there you will find

God

Singing Love softly

The arced sapling

Invites me

Into the woods

Where I AM

Speaks

Through the peace-filled silence of the fresh falling snow

And the companion singing of the white throated sparrow

Through the majesty of life giving maples

And the song of the wind in the poplars

Here

I AM

Speaks

Of the mystery of heaven’s kiss

In the language of  Love

And I AM

Knows

And is known

In us

Beyond words