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Thirsting

To love the unlovable
is a tall order.
Yet that’s the recipe
to quench God’s thirst.

In my own Meribah*
like the psalmist I cry
Where is God?
In the dryness of prayer
I thirst for the flowing water
of God’s love.

Called to be holy
moving from darkness to light
is an adventure in time,
seeking the face of God
in fleeting seconds of hope
pulsing with desire for
a taste of the divine.

The turquoise layered sea of dreams
stretches far from coconut palms
slapped into submission
by a wonton, wild wind.
Prayers bob up and down
on an expanse of expectation
listening to a sonata of sounds
soon crumpled by
waves of doubt.

I pack and unpack
a suitcase of myriad thoughts
allowing the streetlights
to filter through
the thin drapes of my mind
detaching from clinging clusters
of a bottomless cup.

Lord, I am open
to your amazing possibilities
staring at me
as I sip on the nectar of love.

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*Meribah – place of testing; Psalm 81:8