Decaf Moment: Entering the Desert

Entering the Desert:

Go within,
to the deepest
place of
your heart,
and find there
the lenten desert places;
the spaces
of
non-beginning,
perished
growth,
old wounds,
and,
sins…
Once there,
in the
searing honesty
of
soul’s sight,
feeling
its unforgiving heat,
drought driven
and
bowed by
the
burden of
being,
simply cry,
“Mercy!”
and feel
at once,
Love’s
flooding
response,
as desert
becomes
oasis
and blooms again
at the
instant,
not of speech,
but of
intent’s
first aspiration,
as Divinity
awaits,
always,
invitation,
while yearning
through
the long ages
of our losing,
to breathe life
again
into
Adamic
dust
and grant
an
Eternal Spring.