"when my heart is lost in sorrow..."

my friend,
susan,
wrote a song...

it is keeping me from
weeping today...
and
it makes me weep...

it starts with:

"When my heart is
lost in sorrow,
and light seems far and dim...

...there's a tender prayer I can
always pray, simply praising
him..."

I am singing this line over, and over
again in my prayers
as I sit here staring 
into the
voidless beauty of
silence

it gives me a place to start...
and to finish.

To "simply praise Him..."

It is enough.

My heart is singing:

"Praise the Creator..."

and I am flooded with
memories...
memories
that are as present,
and real,
as my thinking of them...right now.

I can actually re-feel,
re-experience,
be re-moved from the
cacophony of
fear by the
re-calling

of healings that came
tiptoeing in
on the breath of
Spirit --
as gentle as the silken air
of summer...

Of anger..and hatred... that dissolved in
sweet waters of defenseless Love

of disappointments that were
displaced by
the divine reminder that
what He appoints,
He annoints...
and nothing can displace us from
our holy commission

of self-forged chains...
...the shackling heaviness of
fear and doubt...
which always
"fall at Love's all power"

of want supplanted
by
gratitude,

of pride washed clean by
humility,

despair
dislodged by trust....

and of hopes re-anchored in
the calm, still
waters of a Shekinah sea...

Today,
I am "simply praising Him..."

and since
"that's what I am
made to do..."

I can let my tears
flow in
an endless song
of
praise...

over His feet,
through my fingers

a baptism of
praise...and
of redemption...

and of
re-proving
that with Love,
all things are
always
new.



*this poem references the hymn, "Simply Praising Hymn," written by Susan Mack, and recorded by The Solo Committee.

also referenced is Hymn 297 from the Christian Science Hymnal authored by R.B.L.