The seasons of our days

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, December 14, 2008

Is it best of times, or worst?
Is it a blessing or a curse,
these lives we lead,
this time and place
in which we dwell?
Are our eyes hidden
from the holy face of God,
or do we stand closer than we know
to the ministrations of divine grace

and healing?

We can transform and glorify
these times in which we live
only by listening for the inner voice
and following its ways.
We can be testaments to the energy
and spirit of these days
only by living them fully
in the light of our brightest power

and highest hopes.

That means following the seasons of our days

with open hearts and hands,
and living as they will.
It means always casting our deeper eye
toward the abundance and growth
of the summertide within.
It means honoring our age
and honoring the road we’ve walked;
but it also means knowing
that new roads always await us,
and new seasons always beckon.

When we cast these lives of ours
 in the light of history’s long page
and in the glow of God’s great grace,

we’ll know how eternally young we truly are--
and how ancient, and how wise,
to have been able to share in this great drama,
this golden hour, fragile and fleeing,
during which we have been called to walk

and live upon the earth.

jbs
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