Other Half

You are the other half of me...when I am lonely, You are there; when I am tired, You make room for my weary head; when journey calls for further travel yet my legs claim exhaustion, it is then You carry me.  Not a moment passes where I find myself alone and yet there are times I act out of pity, act out pride, of desperation.  It is in these moments that I have forgotten my heart, forgotten my purpose, forgotten the truth of my being.  You are my truth, You are my reason for breath, the reason for life.  The other half of me, the half which knows no absorption of societal vices, is pressed not to conform to preset norms, norms rallied by the mind, perpetrated by pride.  You are the love You claimed to be, the love which pride claimed nonexistent. Yet here You are, my better half, the half which feels love, the half which experiences love among sadness, the half which could never succumb to depression, never swayed by human tongue.  Because of You I am made whole, I am complete for Your love the link between this world and Your reality.  Love the venue by which You present Yourself, by which I come to hear Your kind words, come to know Your tender touch, come to experience Your continued presence in my life.  All I can say is thank you; I know my trek has come with many hills and valleys, over many obstacles we have climbed, You have rescued me from drowning many a time for all this, and more, I am grateful.    You have tended my heart, faith my compass, faith my guide, faith my walking stick.  For years I have wandered, searched for purpose, searched for that which drew me close, that which held me tight, that which made me feel complete.  Years of constant motion, looking behind me to see what I had missed, to see who I had missed; with each scan of my surroundings I found nothing yet I felt something.  Unaware, I moved forward, pushed ever slightly by my better half.  Soon I found myself by the water, it is here that discernment fell upon me.  As I gazed upon the water's edge I saw two reflections staring back at me.  With the expectation of one yet finding two reflections, I should have been taken aback yet in this moment I found much comfort, solace in fact.  I had come to find my years of searching were nothing more than exercise for the body for the You in my search was always a part of me.  In that moment, by the water's edge, I was made whole, completed by Your love, strengthened by Your hope and fashioned by Your gift of courage.  Immediately my eyes were opened and every direction I turned I found You gazing back at me, smiling at me for this epiphany, this realization of such truth changed my personage and I became me, the other half of You.  Walking in Your footsteps of compassion every attempt is made to serve my fellow man, to walk in their shoes and act with kindness and justice.  With love my purpose, I work for peace by attempting to implement justice and see Your eyes in every person with whom I meet.  Plagued by the ego, I sometimes stray but You lead me to the water's edge that I may regain my strength and rekindle love, self love which often wavers.  To be the other half of You is an honor for Your pure love can be overwhelming but I have come to understand that I will make mistakes and that You ask not for perfection, You ask only of me to be me.  As we walk, as You carry, I become aware of truths spoken by the heart, truths discarded by the rationalized ego.  Your presence is made known in the simplest breeze as well as the mightiest of thunders;  I am made complete by Your presence, saturated in unconditional love, wrapped in peace.  Stoic no longer, I have broken from my stone casing for one swing of Your love hammer and the stone crumbled to pieces.  Here I am the other half of You, worthy of Your love and ready to act upon such a priceless gift,the gift of You.  As You other half I will sink but being my better half, You will not let me drown.  With each rescue a lesson is learned, a discovery made, an awareness achieved.  The discerning principles of my life begin and end in faith; hence my future bright, my life complete, my adventure just begun.  With so much to do, so much love to spread I walk only by faith, not by sight for I have learned to accept only love and reject that which attempts to harm.  The brilliance of this world wrapped in love, shimmering with peace, echoing with hope is a direct reflection of us in stereo.  You are my world, my better half and I Your servant, ready, able and willing to spread Your Word, spread Your love over a world deafened by the ego and weakened by pride.  Here I am, the other half of You, do with me as You will.