The prayer/poem below is beautifully written and has scripture cleverly embedded in it.
For instance, it talks about "the Way" and how God lights the path (Psalm 119:105).
I love how it draws a picture of the masks we wear "fashioned with the many fragments of my fears". Can I get an "Amen" to that?
And it does not sugarcoat how we will look back at life in the end - at "the bitter and the sweet" - but promises no vain (i.e. useless) regret.
Read it a few times and meditate on His "Ancient Form" and your own journey.
Amazing Grace and Eternal Peace to you and yours today,
Bruce
My Lord,
Draw aside these veils I have made
Interwoven and fashioned with the many fragments of my fears.
That I might glimpse Your Ancient Form upon the inner road of mine.
Where Wisdom reigns and Silence guards the Way to heavens gate.
May my heartbeats walk with a measured step.
May I see with Inner Eye.
Those gleaming forms of radiant Light upon this
Holy Way.
And perhaps at Journeys end when I turn to look upon the bitter and the sweet.
No vain regret will dim my eyes or diffuse the Light, upon
this my
own
Damascus Way.
Raleigh Michael Smith - 1987
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