Christine, at Abbey of the Arts, has been hosting a poetry party; this week’s theme is “Beauty of Broken Things” with this image below as a prompt.
She invites you to participate, see here for details and the wonderful and rich words others have submitted. Here’s my offering:
Honor
Can I honor this pain?
Can I dare call it sacred,
and believe that You are
right in the midst of it?
Are You inviting me to call it holy
and receive it with compassion?
to know this pain, like all other pain,
is on the cross
because of Your unending love for all?
Does redemption, healing
come by entering the pain
rather than asking that it be removed from me?
I love that your poem is made up entirely of questions, questions that invite a living into rather than answers. Thanks so much for joining the party Cathleen!
lovely!
Fantastic poem … I made it over via Christine’s blog. Congratulations!
I just finished a painting this morning entitled, “Redemption” which I will be posting tomorrow.
Thanks to each of you! Eileen – I’ll look forward to seeing your painting and post tomorrow!
Blessings!
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