Make Me Vulnerable

 

Make me vulnerable and open,

To welcome love and criticism as equal partners,

a listening heart, awakened, bleeding,

forgiving and understanding.

It is not weakness, but strength, and eternal desire.

 

“I will persevere in the way of integrity;”

Psalm 101

Openings … Faltering Steps

Faltering steps with bare feet,

Slip from one moss covered rock, to another.

Each move wobbly, tentative and unsure.

 

Until finally I falter, falling deep into the river,

submerged surrounded by His love,

an inner resurrection raising me to the surface.

 

I only see sky and feel water of everlasting life,

touching all body, soul searing upwards,

delighting in the sun and light radiating into me.

 

Like a log fire on a cold winter night,

I AM warm, secure, in His nature’s hands

Drifting down towards an eternal sea of love.