April 15 - Separate Sky and Earth

Author: Karen Mooney
Location: Bedford, Ohio


So began my longing O Lord.
This separation of earth from the all of the sky.
This separation from you.

Thus began the place of knowing
                                            I am not the sky.
Thus began the time to yearn for the closeness of you,
to yearn for that solid moment of breath given to dust.
For that moment of creation.

But that is days and days and days away.

So remind me God what it feels like to create,
                     to say separate
       knowing it will be painful,
knowing it is the only way to something new
and to rejoice saying it is good.

KEM - 4/2012