EDEN’S ACHE
It’s easy to give when the cost is light
and time is easy, but when the price
inflates, I balk, clenching my fists,
refusing to expend, determined
to preserve, because love excavates
all that I have …
all that I am …
exhuming every last thing, flinging
specious pride beyond the city gates
with the rats and the refuse,
a moldering stench of pretension
riven from my fists …
loss upon loss …
upon cascading loss …
till I’m utterly void, destitute, bereft,
and impoverished, heaved onto the ash
heap with Job, hollow, numb,
and sepulchral … oozing
when love bleeds into the hollow,
suffusing Eden’s ache with a touch so
tender it shears self, cleaving pain and
shattering suffering into resplendent
shards of joy, glimpses of a world beyond
the veil. Source and Genesis. Alpha and
Omega. I am steeped in His Spirit, a wine
skin made new, those years the locusts
have eaten He redeems with a word …
Light of the World. Bread of Life.
Shepherd. Gate. Vine. The Way.
The Truth. The Life. Because He is …
I Am.
Cindee Snider Re
Author, Designer, and Co-Founder of Chronic Joy®
Cindee is married to the man she loves most in this world, Mom to five adult kids plus a son- and daughter-in-love, and Lolli to an adorable grandbaby. She and four of her kids have Ehlers-Danlos and myriad co-existing conditions. While a life steeped in illness is not what she would have chosen, through it, she’s learning that the deeper the valley, the greater her capacity for joy.
Cindee is the author of Discovering Hope, Finding Purpose, Embracing Worth, and I Take You in Sickness and in Health.
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