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Revelation
21:6
Then he said to me, ‘It is done! I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift
from the spring of the water of life.
Thanksgiving
redux
More than the past, the future most moves me, hopes unrealized,
joys yet to be, a me I know is there but is not yet despite 65 years.
I walk among the trees, drawn to water, a stream, as if
to drink with the creatures who shyly emerge from the brush. This day the
stream is high, the current swift. Rocks in its course divide it into three
cold, silver currents that merge into one a few yards downstream.
The sun repeats
itself in the silver flow as the stream continues south among the trees, disappearing
from sight while the creatures and I refresh ourselves with living water.
Why is it that you speak to me in such places? I
cannot make it happen.
There is a place in me to which only you have access.
My boots made the bend toward the bridge, and hope, honest hope filled me, rising
from a place deep within, beyond the reach of mind and will.
I felt a future I cannot see and tasted tears of a joy,
knowing it will be fulfilled.
I know: The day will come when I will be more of what
I am, that is … of what you are in me, this Love, this joy, this wonder that
you and I are one and always have been.
This day is set aside for remembering and knowing the
gratitude of love fulfilled, of promises realized, of graces given and
received. There are and have been many.
But the silver current and a house full of laughing grandsons
turn my mind from the past.
Joy is now, and this heart will yet find itself full
and complete in the Love who finds me and speaks in living water that flows on.
Pr.
David L. Miller
