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Ordinary Time

Laurel Trautwein

I too have had my own revivals

why,

just today a stone over my heart was rolled away

as friends listened to me with

an unspoken I believe you

an unspoken I believe in you


and I

like everyone else

have been betrayed by others

and worst yet

by myself

and I have been the persecutor too

by my ignorance

by thinking my way was the only way

my truths have been denied

and I have denied others their truths


but I am coming to see with eyes

that have grown sharper in the dark

during nights of excavation

only to find there are others outside

freed from their own cramped spaces

waiting

trusting

sending good faith

saying surprise me

surprise yourself

come out of your cave

with a holy transformation

tell us about it

about the light and the dark

and how you moved the stones


let us celebrate a soul who has come back to life

for it seems the miracles I know

are as human and as ordinary

as what we are and can be for each other:


an example and witness of daily resurrection




 
 
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