I am a wineskin made new

 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

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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