My experiences with you
Loom large in my life Lord
I fall back on them
I feel secure in them
I can recall and interpret them
I learn their meaning
And yet again and again
They leave me empty
Because they are part of yesterday
Which is gone
I see the newness of these leaves before me
Never before have they been guests on this tree
They are the product of sunlight and earth
And they put my old life to shame
Because I am not reborn daily
In the nearness to you
I know:
That which is gone is gone
You are here now
And you want to be my sun and moon
Lord of my life
In the brightness of your suffering and death
You want to renew yourself in me
In the suffering that I accept as from you
Now
You want to be my Lord
Unchangeable and changed
Because I am changed
Because I am changing
Unaltered in your ability
To adapt to my life as my star
Poem by Ulrich Schaffer
Photo from Mark Reed