In the Beautiful Act...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 In the beautiful act of having this faith in oneself 

there is an inherent acquiescence 

to a "higher Right" or a higher truth ... 

perhaps a more divine perspective. 

I remember a time when I had lost the ability to do this, 

to submit to the higher, 

to trust and believe 

that I would be held gently in the hands of grace. 

It was a dark time, and yet, as Rodney Collin says, 

faith holds a thread for us, once we have known it, 

and it is this thread which will finally guide us home. 

In the darkness, 

I couldn't feel a connection to any sense of faith, 

but even then, 

I knew the pain of its absence was a guarantee that it existed. 

And so I kept looking, 

and through the difficult journey 

I begin to see bits of light, 

and finally some guiding hands appeared, 

and with them the keys to open my eyes. 

And through this difficult journey 

I finally arrived here with you all, 

and I know that grace had given me my home at last.

This feeling of trust and certainty 

has not left me again, and were it to do so, 

I now have the gift of understanding to help guide me back.

~J

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