Is This You?

 

Is this you

Merely occupying a pew?

Is this you coming often

But with nothing to do?

 

Do you feel

Like you don’t belong?

And after coming all these years

Nobody is around?

 

Is this you

Feeling lonely in a crowd

Silenced in the deafening noise

When most are loud?

 

Have you felt

Like going elsewhere

But wondering where to go

Away from here?

 

 Do you feel

Like you are inactive

And while you hear a lot

You’ve become a sieve?

 

Are you looking

To blame someone else

For why all this fleeting time

You’re yet on a shelf?

 

 

Are you inextricably

Bound by the four walls

That for years have defined

Your purpose and call?

 

If this is you?

It’s time to make a shift

For, like I was not long ago,

You are adrift.

 

Not a physical shift

To some salubrious location

But a spiritual adjustment

Of purpose and direction.

 

A manifestation

Not contained in four walls

But in accordance with Christ

In his Matthew 28 call.

 

Matthew 28:19-20

Go ye therefore,

And teach all nations,

Baptizing them

 In the name of the Father,

And of the Son,

And of the Holy Ghost:

Teaching them

 To observe all things

Whatsoever I have commanded you:

And, lo, I am with you alway,

Even unto the end of the world. Amen.

 

Stewart Russell © December 29, 2023