Lover,

 

What have you done to me?

I didn’t use to be beautiful

before you loved me.

I used to be gray.

 

Why did you ever love me?

I  see. That’s what love is.

 

I don’t have words for this.

I don’t need them.

This is just for You.

 

You.

 

How that word draws me in!

You. All that I ever wanted,

and didn’t know it,

so I pushed You

away and away and away.

 

You. The whole world breathes inside it.

You. My whole world.

 

I’m new, now.

You have loved me into perfection.

You have loved me into joy.

You have loved me into living. Nothing

is the same anymore.

 

All the colors go deeper.

You love me into laughter.

You love me into tears. Nothing

matters anymore but to hear

Your voice in everything. See

Your face in everything.

 

When I am tired there is a place for me here.

You. My sanctuary. A holding place.

You. Surround me. This

is an embrace.

Just to sit and be loved —

Is there any greater joy?

 

 

Welcome to this blogspace. My name is Sophia - I'm glad you're here. This blog is meant for shared reflection, a place where we create together, in the spaces between words, a more meaningful experience of the arenas in which we live. I seek to write with wisdom and inspiration - to see the world spontaneously and let its colors drain honestly through my pen. I am a writer who does not close the gaps. Instead, I seek to create gaps that are windows - to prick, as it were, holes in the sky, that we might peer through the stars. I would practice, with you, surrendering the completed picture of self, that, free to see each other's humanness and ourselves more humorously, we might experience the ways we complete each other's pictures. Thank you for participating in conversation with me - for creating more whole images of the highways, homes, mountain ranges, park benches, ministries, and workplaces where we live and become. The comments section of each post is space to verbalize the shapes, images, thoughts, or reflections that emerge for you in the empty spaces between the words in these posts. Always, I value hearing from you. Welcome! May you be blessed with hunger; may it guide you to food that satisfies.

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