There May Come A Time

Soul care in a poem

Good morning!

Photo by George Berberich on Unsplash

We are so glad to be home! Re-entry has its on up hill climb. Planting flowers helped. Rain helped. Beauty helps. Sunday helps. Can finals help.

I read a poem a week on Sundays and wanted to share the one I read today. It’s a keeper. It’s a teacher. It’s a pastoring experience to sit with this and allow the words to take root.

I did not write this one, but my friend in Brevard did. Lucy is the curator of a gallery and in our mountain town. I go in often because her gallery is a space to breathe.

I hope you enjoy this and your own reentry to whatever is awaiting you!

This is a poem about soul care. It is a poem about embracing one’s own life and adjusting, growing, practicing and accepting!

Shalom!

Steve

There May Come a Time

There may come a time
When I can’t be what you need me to be
Because I will be who I need to be

There may come a time
Where the disappointment you feel in me
Comes at a cost from loving myself

There may come a day
When I have disappeared
Simply due to the fact that I deserve all of me

There will be a time
When I can’t teach you anything
Because I’m learning how to lead myself 

There may come a moment
That you feel that I have deserted you
But only because I’m learning to be of service in a better way

With all those moments wrapped up in time,
With all of that,
I may only be able to love you from a distance 
Knowing that my attention belongs somewhere else.

In the end
It’s how we love ourselves
That will bring us back
To being able to love another.

 Lucy Clark 2023
www.lucyclarkgallery.com