Sixth Thursday in Lent

"As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, 'Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?'" Mark 10:17

we keep chasing after

eternal life as if we need

to cross the finish line

before something (we 

don't know what) catches us,

while the life you offer 

is found in the silence

sitting on the porch

watching shooting stars,

is tasted in the meal

with friends we have not

seen in decades and yet

the conversation picks up

right where we left it,

is felt in the touch 

of the child, the grandparent,

the lover, the neighbor who

instinctively knows how 

skin hungry we are.

(c) 2024 Thom M. Shuman

Venmo: @Thom-Shuman