Tomorrow

The gifts of therapy and faith,

among a host of other

invitations to hope,

 are not to bolt yourself

to a clearly-defined understanding

of who you are at this moment.

They are to equip you to know

where you are, how you got there;

to show you some of the bread crumbs

along the path toward the whole person

you were created to become.

Grace, in all its many disguises, is,

at one and the same time,

an hourly rerouting,

an end-of-day permission

to accept today's journey

as enough for today,

and courage to wake

tomorrow with loins girded,

not because you know

where you’re going,

but because you understand

that journey is life itself.

© 2014 Todd Jenkins