



Life feels very much out in the wilderness right now. But it’s a wilderness, not a desert. There is life bursting all over the place and there are holes to fall into, paths that are overgrown and no clear way ahead. It’s a full on world of tension of all the happy and all the sad. An undefined place and I am learning this new skill of holding the tension.
And I am asked
How are you doing?
And I sit, breathe,
Try to put into words.
How to explain this tension
This season of joy and sorrow
Grief and wonder
Delight and frustration
Fear and light
Love and despair
Closeness and loneliness
Fullness and emptiness.
Sunshine and clouds.
And then, surprise
I am holding them both
These consolations
Desolations
Always I’ve lived in the extremes and
Now I walk this path
Of here.
In all it’s messy confused
full depth glory.
And you? How is it for you right now?