Finding highs
in my lows
Where is the learning
growing edge
from the hard places
in my life?
What is pushing up
from the dark
clotted earth
to the light of the sun?
Where is the true
beautiful self
sloughing off
the grave-clothes?
(c) 2018 Julie Clark
I am but a part of the whole
I don’t need to
do everything
know everything
be everything
I just need to
do my part
know who I am
be who I am
As I take my place it is as if I’ve
caught a wave
found the current
flown onto the jet stream
This is a process
Not perfection
Pointed this way
Growing each day
Working and resting
Exerting effort
To become effortless
Watching
The master plan
Of my life
Intersect with the whole
Acceleration and
Exhilaration
Are the results
© 2016 Julie Clark
I am finding the borderlands here.
The place I came from and call home, where I have never been a foreigner, so my passport tells me.
Even though I am an introvert, I really love this place of getting to know others who are different from myself, once I get past my shyness.
Pressing out beyond the familiar helps me keep growing, learning and loving.
Last month at the Bosnian Mosque on the Day of Remembrance, I could remember with my neighbors and help just a little to carry their burden.
The Arab young men my husband works with have been a delight.
Who would have thought that one of them knew how to make raspberry cheesecake!
Yet, I have known for a long time that this is not my true home.
My heart tells me there is so much more beyond this land I see.
Because daily I am there at the borderlands of heaven and earth,
Every time I pray.
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