Into
the woods of dappled light …
Just beyond the meadow of blossoming clover soft
and fair …
Are the woods of dappled light which beckons all
to freely come.
We cannot sense the destination only the life
around our cares,
Still walk we must, venturing forth adding only
to the unknown sum.
For there was much to see and much to note as we
seek our way …
Essence in the leaves of days yet undiscovered colored
green and bold.
What all that is new and laden with dew midst
the branches as they sway,
is mingled with ancient wood of legacy giving as
much life as it is old.
What will be of us, if we remain in the meadow
rolling soft and fair …
and venture not into the unfamiliar woods of nuanced
dappled light?
Will we stay or go, following what the dancing
rays offer willing to share,
joyfully lit, yet fully challenged of adventure,
trial, beauty and delight?
So what becomes of us will always be in the look
and the simple choice …
always unknown but ours to find along the winding trail
just beyond the glade.
Our faith gently pushes and pulls us forward
giving life and giving voice,
in what the woods of dappled light will gift us
in the journey we have made.
It is easy to remain in the comfortable. It is easy to stay in places
of the familiar and friendly. These are always
meadows of what we know and what we have. The ease and calm of these places of
remaining in the secure and the known can be our undoing. It can also be
deadening to our faith.
There is unknown place just beyond the meadows of the comfortable life.
It beckons and intrigues us but it is unknown.
Most people even as they see edge of this place just beyond do not go
forward but remain in what they know and believe. Jesus spoke of the way beyond the way that was. To the “Rich Young Ruler” it was the way of
journeying beyond what he had done in comfort to a place of life in the surrender
in the unknown. We can stay in places of
comfort or we venture forth into the dappled light of faith and find life.
But we are not of
those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and
preserve their souls (Hebrews 11:39, ESV)
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