Saints
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Saints
So great a cloud of witnesses
Surrounding me with warmth, wisdom and wonder
A vaporous certainty of past and present
A free floating future
Without fear
Grandmother’s hug
My big sister’s smile
Dad wrapping his hands over mine as we plane the edge of a cedar plank
So great a cloud of witnesses
Saints from days gone by
A multitude of mindfulness
My mind
My fullness
My family
My faith
Great Uncle Herman’s spectacles low on his nose
Black Bart, cousin Bobby’s sixties vintage Mustang
History
Faithfulness in failure
Despair
Desire
So great a could of witnesses
The continuity of time
A great gathering of gratitude and grace
Peppered with poverty
Pain and pride
Through time the footsteps of the Spirit
Lives lost lived and loved
Tracings in the sands of the seasons
Endured celebrated embraced refused
So great a cloud of witnesses
The legacy of all that’s been
Today I am deep
And broad
Flexible
And found
Today I am rain watering the earth
From so great a cloud of witnesses
DBR 10/28/2009
Saints
So great a cloud of witnesses
Surrounding me with warmth, wisdom and wonder
A vaporous certainty of past and present
A free floating future
Without fear
Grandmother’s hug
My big sister’s smile
Dad wrapping his hands over mine as we plane the edge of a cedar plank
So great a cloud of witnesses
Saints from days gone by
A multitude of mindfulness
My mind
My fullness
My family
My faith
Great Uncle Herman’s spectacles low on his nose
Black Bart, cousin Bobby’s sixties vintage Mustang
History
Faithfulness in failure
Despair
Desire
So great a could of witnesses
The continuity of time
A great gathering of gratitude and grace
Peppered with poverty
Pain and pride
Through time the footsteps of the Spirit
Lives lost lived and loved
Tracings in the sands of the seasons
Endured celebrated embraced refused
So great a cloud of witnesses
The legacy of all that’s been
Today I am deep
And broad
Flexible
And found
Today I am rain watering the earth
From so great a cloud of witnesses
DBR 10/28/2009
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