“The ingredients for a life-altering moment are present on this wilderness road: two Spirit-filled human beings encounter one another” –Patricia Thomas, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Are you open to others’ questions? Are you careful to share from your own experience?

All things.

Clods, clumps, bunches and sorts.

All of it. Nothing is to be left out, ignored or named

insignificant.

Every lump. Inside the circle.

And the circle spins slowly

spins out from the heart of the Christ

twirls in and through and down the channels of light

and comes back to its lovely genesis

from him

and

through him

and

to him.

All things.

–Nancy Thomas, from “All Things” in Close to the Ground