A Full Vessel

We do not pour our hearts out into an empty chasm. 
Our souls do not awaken and stir because we will them to. 

All of our yearning, searching, and toiling is not in vain;

we do not lay down sacrifices at the altar of an unknown god.

 

There are seconds in time
where the vibrancy of this earth seems to swell

to such a point that I feel it might over take me.

Those are the moments that I am starkly reminded

of the undercurrent on this planet,

that there is a constant force that surges

while we try and live our lives.

How numb have I become to that force,
how blind have I been to its presence?

 

When I lose sight of how the Spirit moves throughout
my every moment I allow myself to become dulled, rusted, useless. 

This journey will sharpen me, file me down

and make me into a useful instrument in the Kingdom. 

 

When I give up this flesh, this “me”,

my soul quakes in the understanding

that who I am is more than I let myself be.

We reside in two worlds – this present planet
and the ever present realm of God.

 

I, we, cannot allow this world to get in the way of that Kingdom. 

It is a fight to not let the immediacy of the world around me

consume my being and impede the Spirit within me.

How startling is the realization that you can never be anyone but who you were made to be.