Story
Show me the pages of your life
And I will read aloud your gospel
A story sinewed
As our clay bodies
As our soft hearts
As our clear minds
Move from genesis
Into the waiting world.
Actions and outcomes
Deliberations and decisions
Lessons and lamentations
Taking the next step
And the next
Each setting bone into socket
And chisel to our jaws.
Choice
Is the blood of our becoming.
Our actions like flesh
Reveal our countenance
Our stories
Our gospel.
May we radiate beauty.
May compassion
Be a fire within us
And the ever dawning light
To guide our path.
May we wear love
Like a crown
Cast at the feet
Of this jeweled creation
Seeing holiness
In every being.
Show me the pages of your life
That our stories
Sewn together
In gentleness
In kindness
Might become a living word.
-Kathryn Yingst
7/27/26