March 3, 2017

My Journey to God

Unrepeatable

I am born
and I am unrepeatable.
          So what am I to do?
Laundry?
Dishes?
Dinner?
          Laundry.
          And dishes.
          And dinner.
And read the same favorite book
to the same face-like-mine
one more time.
          And forgive
          and ask forgiveness of
          the ones I choose again
          to love each day.

Some days
          when there are no words
          or too many
          and I am tired
          of always being the one
          who has to …
          I want to shout,
          “Is this all?”

But not every day.
Some days
          I hold pure love
          soft in my arms,
          feel muscled arms
          hold me up
          and I could
                    almost
                              break
                                        from joy.
          “This. Is All!”

          And my grateful heart
          flies to my God
          and bends low.

I am unrepeatable.
          Help me, Lord,
          do what I am to do.

I am born.
And I am born anew.

By Katie Rahman
 

(Katie Rahman is a member of St. Patrick Parish in Terre Haute.) †

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