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| "Kicking Against the Goads" by Abigail Stevens |
Wait! Don't go! Stay!
There's enough here for you,
For your next word,
Your next choice,
Next look.
It's not there
Where you withdraw for air
Artificially inflated for another breadth of time.
It's not in dear friends'
Kindred thoughts that extend
Your energy beyond your calculated dividend.
Nor in strategy,
That measurement of sympathy
Or well-constructed reply.
No. It's here.
The staying power is
At the end of yourself
Because there He is.
Only there
At the empty self
A hair's breadth away from tears
A blink away from shouting
A heart beat from flight.
Let the panic be Pavlov's bell.
Let the heart feel its yearning
For its Savior.
You have enough
Because every spiritual blessing is yours.
You know enough
Because He knows it all.
You are enough
Because He weighed you
Equivalent to His son's life.
Stay!
Don't withdraw
Into that place
Where the I.V. drips slowly
And never is enough.
Stay!
Find Him
And fall there.
He is.
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