I wrote this thinking of my friend in Cape Town, of the changing of seasons in her life, of the promise of the new year. It is something, tho, that needs bigger audience, because there’s a bigger message. It is written for my friend, but given to you:
Today is 31st December 2011
Today is cleaning off the old chalk,
Today is the wrap up of all that was old,
Today is the final sweeping out of the barn of last harvest,
Today is the tightening of the knots of the net for the new harvest,
Today is the lengthening of the ropes,
Today is digging new holes for stretched out curtains
Today is hammering in deeper pegs,
Today is wiping off the disappointment,
Today is the ticking out of the seconds of the old season,
Today is the ground cracking just before the sprout shows,
Today is the bud about to bloom,
Today is the painter’s brush microns above the canvas,
Today is tomorrow’s sunlight just before the dawn.
Today, my friend, is the curtain down, ready to swing open on that
Promised New Season,
a new, clean, slate,
a new beginning,
a year in which different makes the difference!
Today is the conscious release of all that holds you back,
Today we decide what cargo gets thrown overboard
Today we get ready to give the wheel to The Captain, certain He knows the seas
Today we turn our hearts toward Him
Today we hand over the keys of the box holding your worn down, faded, abused past,
Today we look expectantly for His hand, ready to embrace whatever it is that the new day brings
Today we decide, once & for all, that we’re prepared to allow the past be past,
Today we decide, once & for all, that we’ll allow our hands to be strong for the coming day
Today we’ll believe
Today we’ll set our eyes on the Risen Son,
knowing,
believing,
confident,
certain,
adamant in our belief
that our heart is rooted in the Rock that can never be shaken,
that He who has overcome everything that ever held you back, is waiting in the wings to walk out with you onto the stage called
The Beginning
if only you will let Him.
Today is the setting of the sun on 2011
The best is yet to come!
(dennis bartlett, in Perth, WA)
It is so brilliant. How do you think these things out.