DREANS & DESIRES

Deep within me a small desire is rising

As the days pass I nurture it and it grows

In times of calm when no one is about

I take my desire and look at it

Like a pebble in my hand

I turn it and survey it from all angles

Imagining all that could come of it.

Each time I do this is grows

But when I hide it within me again

It becomes like a stone in my heart

Burdening me weighing me down

Until one day as I take it in my hand

A voice in love and gentleness speaks

'Give me that burden, let it go'.

In panic I hold it even tighter

I could not bear to give this desire up

But the voice is insistent 'Cast it from you'.

With tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat

I cast my pebble of desire from me

Watching it fall to the ground

It rolls away from me, out of reach.

But wait, as it rolls it collects earth

Like a snowball growing as it moves away

And the voice again speaks:

'While it is clutched to you I cannot help

Release it to Me, into My hands

Hands that create and form from clay

Those capable hands of a potter'.

'Now see your desire in My hands

Like that clay I took in My hands long ago

Forming it I breathed the breath of life and it became a man

Now I will breath that breath again into your desire

It will live, it will exist

Becoming a living reality in your life

Because I will give you the desire of your heart'