July 31st

“Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.” Psalm 143:8

now
in the silence of loneliness
as the world wobbles around us,
we offer our lives to you,
weary from too many doubts
wrinkled from fretting over fears
longing to remember those simple lessons
we learned from you so long ago,
that we might use them as quiet chants
to cradle us through the night
until
with a gentle nudge
and a breath of wonder,
that tenderness which knows no ending,
awakens us with grace streaming
through the slats of our hearts
and we can once again walk
in the Light of your yes.

© 2025 Thom M. Shuman

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