Ann Nadge, a poet I know, has distilled some of the posts from this blog into poetry. She has used my words verbatim, captured the essence of the post, and moulded it into a poet's vision.
This poem consists of verbatim fragments from an original post on 2 September, 2021.
On God’s Love, Spiritual Discipline and the Freedom of Patience
There is nothing God is withholding,
waiting for us to earn.
Everything is given – what more
can there be than the love that is God?
What God has done in Jesus
and given in the Spirit
is working its way through our lives
and the whole of creation.
To live into what has been bestowed
requires new habits of thought and feeling,
practising the spiritual disciplines, the sense
of the presence of God to blossom -
new habits of awareness and gratitude,
not always intense discipline,
but a freedom and patience
that waits for God in our lives,
the presence of God unveiled
now and in our past. After all,
