Answering Lillie
We are built for destiny's questions
While you were looking away
we saw you coming....
While you were looking away
we saw you coming....
Others see our callings before we do
Walking our passion out as we do,
we do not reflect on what this step
or that one means
we do not reflect on what this step
or that one means
Shaped by life, by God's hand,
by toes dug in sand, by providence
by toes dug in sand, by providence
by wishes, by Divine laughter--cosmic jokes
and expectations we didn't know we had,
We live the questions
rather than ask them.
and expectations we didn't know we had,
We live the questions
rather than ask them.
We do what we are assigned
not knowing there is a mandate
it morphs our bones into shape
and people notice like women
know when another woman is
pregnant before she misses
a menstrual cycle or bends
in nauseous consent.
Women know these things.
Women note Moving Mystery and Clouds
Women know these things.
Women note Moving Mystery and Clouds
that overtake us before we
know we are consumed. Others
see us like this.
We never fully see ourselves
It's wise to listen to counsel, to judge it
against what we know about God's
works in our particular histories
why we ought pay attention to sacred texts
and wrangle the questions clear
I ended up many of the places I have
and doing much of what I do because of
the 2 or 3 or several witnesses who confirmed
the where and the it of my life
long before I could commit my heart
to it or even say it was a Divine commission
And oftentimes, God is on a timeline
that does not give us the luxury of hesitation
we need the mothers to tell us
to get up and get moving
in the direction of that last
Whisper, even if we have no
idea where it's taking us.
© Valerie Bridgeman
May 12, 2014
© Valerie Bridgeman
May 12, 2014
(Words from March 2008/reworked--in answer to the question, "Why do others see your call before you do?")
Lillie,
We are built for these kinds of questions
Often others see our callings before we do
because we often just are walking them out
and not reflecting on them at all
just doing it or being shaped by life
by the hand of God
by providence
by Divine humor
We do what we are assigned
even when we don't know it's an assignment
And people begin to see
the new shape
but like wise old women who can tell another woman
is pregnant before that woman knows,
or before she even misses a menstrual cycle
people take note of Moving Mystery
and the Cloud that overtakes us even before
we know we're consumed in it
We never fully see ourselves
That is why it's wise to listen
to the voice of counsel and judge it
against what we know about the way God
works in our particular histories
paying attention to the sacred texts
and how fruitful are the lives
of the people who claim to "see" us
I ended up many of the places I have
and doing much of what I do because of
the 2 or 3 or several witnesses who confirmed
the where and the it of my life
long before I could commit my heart
to it or even say it was a Divine commission
And oftentimes, God is on a timeline
that does not give us the luxury of hesitation
we need the mothers to let us
to get up and get moving
in the direction of that last
Whisper, even if we have no
idea where it's taking us.
© Valerie Bridgeman
January 16, 2013, with words from March 2008
