FRAMES  & FINISH

    [The Focus]    

We resist seeing ourselves as we truly are, because it is safer to stay in shadows we think, than bask in the sunlight and be seen ... eventually though, we face the  mirror, and focus on  the image and reflection of Love ... the "big picture" ....  

So many of us seek a perfect reflection, and strive in equal stride to pave our days with good works in action, because we want to be welcomed and not pushed away at the gate when we get there ... because we did not do the work required to achieve that 'spit and polish' we dream of.

Faith comes in unusual ways at times, speaks to us in profound moments when minutes seem like hours to us and we have no sense of movement in the Abyss ...   only blank moments blinking back shadows, as we rotate and broil on a wilderness spit ... and wait on God and something to happen, some benevolent angel to bestow the wisdom and Grace that we need to keep going .... and save us from the 'flame' ... 

And on other days, it seems like wishful thinking, and nothing more, this expedition and adventure in Faith ... only part of a dream, a myth, a moment suspended in time and imagination, until we wake to a new horizon and see the Promise of dawn streak across the sky in rainbow colors ... 

We could not see or feel its force in action, but  Oh, what a foundation in Faith secured us to mountain tops when we could not feel our way through that narrow mountain pass ...and in the valley below, deep in the Abyss, when we believed in heart we were abandoned by God, but did not abandon Faith, the form and finish took shape ... perfected in the image of One who loved and held us in the night ... kept careful watch and guard over our souls ... until the day we emerged from the wilderness ...    

All 'spit and polish' in the flame, collage complete ... in the name and image of Love .... 

Difference & Discovery  [The Dimension] 2004

Mirrors & Mortality [The Master] 2005

© 2005 Phyllis A Travis