I Spy Beauty...

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Epiphany
Unclench your fists
Hold out your hands.
Take mine.
Let us hold each other.
Thus is his Glory
Manifest
from 'The Ordering of Love: the new and collected poems of Madeleine L'Engle' (2005), page 139.

I have been thinking about community these past few weeks. This poem is a beautiful description of true community and intimacy.

Epiphany

Unclench your fists
Hold out your hands.
Take mine.
Let us hold each other.
Thus is his Glory
Manifest.
- Madeleine L'Engle from The Ordering of Love

This is a much more succinct and beautiful description of the truth that I have experienced over the last few years: It is living in community - true, honest, messy, loving community - that we experience the fullness of God.

Amen