Becoming

From Ann Glover O’Dell’s Midwifing the Soul:

Witnesses we are

we’re told

of all things seen and hidden

of all that streams before our eyes

of all that

capturing our senses

stirs the longings of our heart

of all remembered

and in Holy Writ encased

of all the lives of saints

and martyrs

of all the creeds and dogma

and catechism’s questions

of all the politics and power plays

and petty tyrants’ tantrums

of all that cries out to be said and done

and battles for fair justice won

of all the acts of our one life

commissions’ haughty pride

but  omissions’ guilt we hide

and ’neath it all

a yearn to witness

something strange and beautiful

a breaking

of the finitude of being

a splitting of mortality

a quenching of

the hunger and the thirst

a witnessing

becoming bread and wine.

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