Who am I and what I becoming when I am alone?
I wrote the following during one contemplation of solitude:
Apart from the crowd, peers, assembly, spotlight
Apart from family, siblings, spouse
Apart from church and program
When outward action is ceased
When one is alone
What are we?
Who am I?
To whom do I listen?
To what do I give my attention?
What occupies my consciousness?
Where do I turn?
Out of aloneness
Out of solitude
Emerges the shaping of the soul
Which either breathes energy and shalom,
Community formation and kinship,
Or barriers of fear, doubt, and suspicion.
O, to be conversant in the stillness of solitude
With love divine itself.
Here, shape my soul
And fill it
With creative redemption.
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