“Since then, I’ve tested this theory, watching for moments, even hard ones, when I am fully awake to the experience of my own life. There – in sunsets and hospital rooms, with friends both laughing and crying – I am met with the deep grace of the Spirit, with joy.” –Bethany Lee, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Are you allowing God’s joy to be your strength today?

Water God

Seven years you have pounded my shore,

water God.

And I have sent your waves careening,

my rocks throw you in splitting spray

back to your ocean bed.

Today you court me again,

and my rock heart breaks in a thousand pebbles

at your touch,

and my shoreline opens to you unabashed,

waiting the onslaught of your love.

–Carol Bialock, Coral Castles