The “beyond within”- our inner workings
Often quite a mixed pond of murkings
With parts so crystal clear and gleamings
Of freedom from old and putrid holdings;
Other parts rippled with stirrings of teeming
New life and struggle to grow into meaning
Afar the diseased corner, sludge-afflicted
Where deficit shows and care neglected
Hidden under brush and shadows until
The Pond-keeper begins a flushing drill
Ready-ing an unseemly empty place to fill
With new and fresh water of Life
That our deficit calls forth in its strife
To re purpose yet another place rife
With mired ungratefulness, shame, and grief
O Pond-keeper, come
JS 8/16
“He desires truth in our inmost being…” Psalm 51:6
Have you been there with Him lately?
“The beyond within” – Dallas Willard’s description of the soul in Renovation of the Heart