The slipping

[the audio link is below, for those of you who would like a listening prayer-meditation]

Sometimes on our climb I lose my footing

and as I slip, I wonder why

I’m on this path, why

there are paths at all, why

it matters if I climb or not, why

the terrifying darkness follows me –

and then you grab me and hold me close to rock

until I find a place to stand, to place my weight

until the rock holds and you hold and yes, hold, hold, hold

until the sky appears again and the ground again below

and the rock is solid and still you hold;

and as you wait with me, the answers return, like flittings from a dream

which solidify and massify until they are more massive than the cliff

face, until they become the glowing path again,

until strength returns to my hands again

until the strength of my will matches my strength’s strength

and only then do we continue:

onward, rugged, blessed steps

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