Beloved
Thursday, 14 December 2023
| Miriam Dale
And so, we sit here.
And all the ambitions of the world
And all the questions of our generations
And the ones past
And the ones to come sit on our shoulders and bounce around our busy brains
And every desire to just be BETTER, BETTER, BEST! to just be good, loveable
And desirable
And incredible
And worship-able – all of them twist around and around and –
Sometimes you have to take them and put them down with a
thump
And shut the door firmly on them and –
Embrace grace
Although you know accepting it fully will take years, maybe millennia
(Perhaps that’s what eternity is for?!)
But for the moment you say GRACE.
His Grace is Sufficient for Me and
He Delights in Me where
I AM
NOT just where
I should or
Would
or could be
And
I am,
My identity is,
.... Beloved.
SAY it, though you don’t feel it and put those questions and doubts to bed again, one more time, in the hope and ambition that one day they will forget to wake up and leave you be
In the certainty
that all you have left is
and all you need to be is:
BELOVED.
Miriam Dale has been writing and performing poetry for more than a decade, for weddings and celebrations, griefs and challenges. She writes to explore experience, theology and relationship with God and life, and hopes her poems may function as story, memory, prayer and sometimes even prophecy. See more at www.MiriamDaleWritings.com.
Image credit: Heart Engraved Tree Trunk by Chandan Chaurasia at Unsplash.