One Half

I finished the eighteenth square last week at clergy conference. The quilt is half-way done! And it's only taken eleven months!

On our only rainless afternoon last week, I sat up on the hill near the labyrinth, which inspired another potential pattern...

Gliding along the winding path

in a circle of safety

releasing my grip on my cares

and opening up inside,

dilated at the center of my soul...

not a hole

a vessel

a place of silence

a vacancy reserved for God

for spiritual communion

an inner sanctuary

purified by the consuming fire

of the Holy Spirit

and what is left there...

etched in the center of my soul is

"I am with you, there is nothing to fear."

-Anonymous