Scenes from the Journey: Not Yet But Soon

Sunday, March 20, 2016

We get the word the minute we exit the womb.

And then we spend most of our lives

(in collusion with those who love us)

denying it.

If we heeded it from the start

would we change?

Would our actions be affected?

Not yet, we would know, but soon.

Would we take that philosophically?

See it as a sentence? A threat? A promise?

There are so many ways to present the simple truth--

namely, no one gets out of this alive.

Loss is built in to the situation.

Early or late we will learn what we came to learn

and then we leave.

And every day I give thanks

for one more day to try to get it right.

May the learning never stop.

We pray "not yet, not yet"

even though we know the truth:

Not yet, but soon.

Scenes from the Journey