Life’s Knots
Moments mark the
passage of life.
Each a knot in the
tatting of time;
Some complete a
healing from strife.
Some highlight a
wisdom sublime.
Creator holds the ‘mazing
design.
Spirit brings
together each loose strand.
Word Become Flesh
works alongside, just fine.
Co-creating with the
created, a wholesome band;
Intentional movement
brings meaning out.
Loose strands of life
may abide awhile.
Situations shift from
murmur to shout,
Level places
transform from hapless pile.
Serenity fills soul
with healing balm.
Open, calloused hands
pause in break.
Clean water, parched
lips bring calm.
God’s plans line-out
the surveyor’s stake.
Patterns of living
require limits, bounds.
Emotional breadth
knows joy to despair.
Honest suffering
gives heart-full tunes sounds.
Life’s design
magnificent detail, ego beware.
Earliest score of
years, safety nurtured.
Next score vocations
tried, learning from books.
Third score
perfecting, refining, recasting the ruptured;
Fourth score allows
vision from retirement’s nooks.
Each trip of life, a
conscious step by step;
Gentle are the knots
that bring joyful flare.
History marked not by
tangled threads but faith kept.
Services rendered,
lives touched by justice’s dare.
Sisters, brothers
each one a disciple of the One,
Entrust your strands,
hold softly each loose end.
Note the knots that
formed at setting sun.
A glorious needlework
show just round the bend;
The Rev. Ronald Allen Melver, M.Div.
4 October 2013
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