Monday, January 12, 2015

Psalm 139:1-3 

O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
   you discern my thoughts from far away.
You search out my path and my lying down,
   and are acquainted with all my ways.

I know … you

Light flows through south

windows, and I know …

as light embraces every space

warming and filling each far

corner so is your knowledge

of me, all I am and all that is.

Nothing is left out; wounds

and scars from childhood,

places I protect, secrets

we hide, sorrows unexpected

moments awaken and trouble

the tender heart; light

finds them all.

And troubles need not be

for it is you, Loving One,

who know me. Your knowledge

of this soul is not fearful, for you

are Love and your knowing is

a lover’s knowledge of this life,

this soul, the times of my living

and hidden corners of heart.

In your knowing, … I know ..

I live in the light of your knowing,

the light of your loving,

the warmth of utter compassion,

the delight of your eye that never

ceases to see and know and love

each moment of my days

from the child I was--wounded, afraid

and alone, to the soul you have grown

from earliest moments, yes even

from pains I would have fled,

given the chance.

You look at it all and say,

“Yes, even that, even there,

even then I knew you. Look …

with me … at all of it … and

love it … for I see, it all

and love it all, for from it all I have

made a heart that is true with love,

hope and joy. I know and love …

you. Come, enter the joy of living

in the light of this knowing.

Pr. David L. Miller