We are called from our darkness to live life a new Way
     Enfleshing ourselves with new garments
Body and blood that are not of our making
     Are called by the Word into being

That double-edged sword cutting fat heart-encasing
     A steeling away from ourselves
The false idol images wistfully crafted
     A totem denying decaying

In hot light of kin-dom we squint back from fleshliness
     Learning to see life from anothen
Something we knew at the dawn of God's kneading us
     When in the womb we breathed water

All of our life-long we journey back home
     to the womb of our being
A birth from above
God calls us to harvest ourselves in a realm which
     is not of our making
     Our Source and our Seed

May 31, 1994 and February 10, 1995