Epiphany 060403

It's really funny how sometimes it's the most difficult things that make your life that much easier.

How the very thing you put off doing because you're so

Terrified

That it will bring you pain

Actually brings you such sweet relief once you

Pluck up your courage

And face it head on,

Hysterically, wildly, frenziedly.

Giving up on hopes it always difficult.

But always, if done on

Wise decision from wise counsel,

Brings far more liberty than ever before.

Ever felt,

As you watched the frantic glee

of a mid-afternoon thunderstorm,

Like kicking off your shoes and to heck with your reputation, so help me God,

and dancing in circles in the sodden grass?

Perhaps shouting to the heavens

Your thanks and your praise

that even in your foolishness

He was faithful?

And I've learned.

I've let go.

I've charged through and done

What I had to do.

I've stood before the cage of my heart and mind

And reached out

And opened the door

And forcefully pulled out

The fragile feathered thing that was my dream of you

And flung it to the open sky,

Into the arms of the Father.

And today I stood

Alone

Watching the furious delight of a rainstorm

And laughed.

I'm learning.

I'm living.