August 26, 2006

"Out of the Shadows"

For so long,
I hid myself from the world,
Like a bear in a cave.

Armored my insecurities
With a smile and a hearty laugh
And both hands held up
To stave off anyone
Who could enter
My carefully constructed
Coccoon.

Both hands can't protect
My entirety.
Too small a space
They can fully guard
And somehow
My hiding place
Was discovered,
Breached.

Bright lights
Burned my long-darkened eyes,
Exposed me to real life.
Now, I am coming
Out of the shadows,
Never will run from reality
Again.

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Well, I wrote this back in May. (Have at it, my poetry critics.) But while you read it, think about what you have a tendency to run from in reality. It's different for everyone. Is it the scary notion of letting go of the rest of your life and letting Christ run it? Is it the frightening idea that our knowledge is limited and no, there is not an answer for everything...except God? What is it for you? If you can recognize it, share it with me. I pray for many of you often and I would like to know how to more "tailor" my prayers.

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Isaiah 43:19
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

I feel like a wasteland, and not one with streams popping up out of it. How come I do not perceive that the Lord is doing a new thing in me? Well, it doesn't matter what I feel anyway. The Lord just wants me to trust. Okay, I choose to trust that my "Gardener" knows what He is doing. :)

3 comments:

wendybirde said...

Personally I think there is a reason bears hibernate in caves, and that its not a bad thing at all, nor is it for bad us to be "in our caves" when we need hibernation either, real healing can happen there.

I guess the thing though is that bears are only there in the winter--in spring they are out in the sun. And we need that balance too.

I guess I see us as like plants, at first fully underground (cave-d), and then later opening to the world above ground. But a plant even then still keeps its roots in that soil/cave even as its leaves open longfully to the sun. We need both, that curling in and opening up. And God is there in both places. Kind of like He is in both our "going ins and coming outs".

Maybe you are not in a wasteland, just merely under the soil. I love what you said about "I choose to trust that my "Gardener" knows what He is doing".

Its such a gift that you pray for people even in "blog world" here. I'll have to think about that question at the end, its likely a blind spot for me.

So nice to see you posting again Liberty : )

AFamousStatue said...

Oh, I think those are both good observations. Yes, sometimes I "hibernate," and sometimes I "hide." I think the problem commences when I hide. :)

Yes, I am probably just under the soil right now. Sometimes I feel like a tender, green (quickly sprouting) shoot though. But I do trust my Gardener. :)

Yes, I pray for YOU, Wendy! (And others.) Hope everything is okay!

Hey, let me know when you have an answer to my question, k?

AFamousStatue said...

Can I lie and say I did? (Cause I didn't.)

Is that a threat?