07 December 2022

ideal into Real

for the ways
she was blown 
away (not known
to be tossed)
by the Wind
and flown
into the netherlands
between domesticity
and Eternity
(whether she
was ready
to be bandied
about as
an outcast
or a Saint
or both)
crying out 
to Infinity
'holy mother 
of God!'
counting the cost
of feeling lonely
and lost
only wanting
with each sigh
and groan
some semblance
of resemblant Connection
in the haunting
and daunting Silence
the Life grown
within her womb
sowing seeds
of heartbreak
and Hope
not knowing
the hearts
He'll break
(including her own)
and she'll break
(having so much
to bear as
she carries Immanuel - 
God WITH us - 
most often alone)
and the intimations
she'll forsake
casting expectations abroad 
as she journeyed 
onward as the 
Mother of God
yet outlasting 
the infamy
of fantastical Birth
the breathing
and pushing
through the pain
of releasing
our inborn dependency
on the constancy
of the acceptance
and affirmation
of others
to welcome us
into an Incarnation
of Infinite Infancy
the child Jesus
reawakening us
to our Eternal 
Worth within
which frees us
to Be
our Selves
making Room for
a Universal Intimacy
through Sacrificiality
that cuts through
the artificiality
that perpetually
constricts our character
to squeeze us
to please others
to prove
our Selves
how she moved
through the ordeal
appealing to our
sense of authenticity
revealing the Real
most sincerely
without fear
leading the Way
and how astonishing
the Reality is
that she persevered
not merely
as a vessel
of true Love
but appeared into
this Day
this Life
this World
(so battered and bruised
and Brazenly Blessed
and desolate and distressed
and Divinely Dressed
and tattered and torn
and Transcendently Thunderous
and weathered and worn 
and Winsomely Wondrous)
as One
so uniquely
and beautifully Born...

Thank You.

#300wordprayers #Advent2022 #ForMaryAndImmanuelAndTheJourneyFromTheIdealIntoTheReal 

('Forces of Nature' © agsandrew)



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