Iron Mountain ski jump

Iron Mountain ski jump

Monday, September 28, 2020

I STILL ANSWER [M, 9-28-20]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter



Sometimes there comes a message

from somewhere far beyond

that tells me

I’m still here

that tells me to

lengthen my stride

hold up my head

look near and far

for laughter and joy

 

I used to revel in that call

I straightened my shoulders

and went for the barricades

 

Now I know the limits

of the summons to be brave

These voices never last

but for a moment

 

Yet the Spirit is eternal

The calls still sound

in echoes far and distant

And I still answer

 

Perhaps only from the memory

of battles past and lost

But still I answer

 

John Robert McFarland

 

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