This is our story

This is our story:

Running as if from something

Hiding as if afraid

We listen but do not hear

We speak but with tied tongue

We see yet with blinders

Our story humanity begins in trials

Ends in tribulations

This story need not be our story

For we have forgotten how to hear

Forgotten how to speak

Forgotten how to see

Too much attention is given to meaningless moments

Too much time spent on worry 

Too many reservations about belief

Not enough time spent on prayer

Not enough attention to the Father

To change this story we need to stop

In the silence we will hear our true story

We will embark upon a journey reaching beyond our humanity

For at our core, we are the Father’s

He knows our person

He loves our person 

The beauty of faith has given us a face

A face with which we do more than see

We know

We know the Father, we know His love

With this face, we survey our surroundings

We embark on a journey deep within the soul

That we may hear every word the Father speaks

That we may speak of His love and devotion

That we may see what others no longer believe

To share in the Father’s love makes us holy

Not perfect

Not infallible

Just holy: sharing in Father

Should we only listen with our ears, we miss too much

Should we speak only with human tongue, we confuse our sentences

Should we look only with our eyes, we see only the surface

Faith marks our now

Faith fleshes out our person

While the heart acts upon such truths

The heart hears every word the Father speaks

Words in the dark of night

Words amongst the chaos of humanity

Words whispered in silence

The heart hears, the heart knows, let the heart react

Such reaction will temper our tongue

Allow us to speak the words of the heart

Echo the words of the Father

Speech is not limited to the human tongue

Speech of the heart eclipses every language

For the speech of the heart connects to the Father

It knows truth

It dwells among faith and lives among love

Wordless words are etched into the soul allowing movement

Allowing peace, celebrating togetherness

Every wordless word allows us to see

See the presence of the Father in our everyday life

See that which the world has forgotten; the Father, here, now

The heart sees without eyes, the beauty of this world

The beauty reserved for all of God’s children 

We are the beauty

Let our story reflect such beauty

Reflections of the soul emancipated our humanity

Free we are to live, live of the heart

Live with the heart

Live in the heart

That we may partake in the togetherness of the Father

Become close, so close, that never again do we feel alone

Never again can anxiety petrify our journey

Paralyzed we will never be for in our truth, in the Father, we move with faith

Here is our story

A people, a doubt

Silenced by faith

Emancipated but truth

Encouraged by hope

Discovered in the Father

A people moving past the tangible

Ignoring the fears discoverable in humanity

Listening, hearing the wordless words of the Father

Reiterating such words with actions and deeds of faith and compassion

Seeing the steps of our journey in light of a connectedness with the Father

This is our story

Faith fortified in the Father

Actions sanctioned in love

Inspired to hear

Trusting in our heart, in the Father

Here we are, this is our story

Faith riding the wings of the Father through a cloud of love

A story

Our story

Our story with the Father

The only story worth telling