Flame

Old Stone Fort Archaeological Park (Manchester, TN)

Faith is really quite simple.

All we are asked to become

is burning bushes, giving voice

to God without being consumed

by the fire; living flames.

Simple? Yes. Easy? 

Actually, impossible

all by ourselves,

but that doesn't stop us

from giving it

the old college try,

which works as well

as the 3-year-old's cry,

with its stubborn tantrums

and "all by myself" attitude.

That's what got us atop

this wilderness mountain

in the first place; which is

precisely the place that God

uses so well to stop us

in our tracks with the light

from someone else's fire.

We are invited to allow

the tinderbox of our own souls

to be ignited, adding our own brief candles

to the heavens’ constellations,   

as Grace's torch never goes out.

© 2015 Todd Jenkins