Epiphanies

One of the things I set up for myself in this writing goal is that if I make Sunday my writing day then I always have the option of using the sermon at church that day as a jumping off point. So that's what I'm doing today. (I go to Second Unitarian church in Chicago).

So today the sermon was about the Epiphany. The story of the three wisemen was used a jump off point for the general subject of epiphanies.  Enjoy!

Epiphany

These are the moments

The “this is the moment” moments

The moment when something is revealed

When we deeply feel the answer

To a question we may not know how to ask

When we are filled with a sense of the sacred

All this time we have followed a star

Whether we recognized the star for what it was

Or whether we just did what we needed to do

Little clues have led us there on the way

The fault line beneath us is shifting

But we may not notice until the earthquake

These are the moments of spiritual jet lag

Where the world has fallen down around us

And we find ourself awake in a foreign land

We stand up and survey the landscape

We pick a road

When the epiphany comes

We don’t pack up our discoveries and put them back in the attic

There is so much to learn from what has been revealed

The star burns brighter and we follow it onward

As we open our hearts to new discoveries

Along the way.

The Flame Burns On

So many times

I rise from the ash

Called into a new form

By the same song

Little by little the truth is revealed

I cast off what I need to heal

When life crumbles and I start to melt

Into the uncertainty of the new turn

I hold onto the love around me

I look for lessons I can learn

Epiphany after epiphany

Answers are revealed

I find a sense of peace again

As the road leads me onward

I focus on each step

The path right now is clear

In the distance I see  a dark forest

But I focus on the journey a step at a time

Fueled by the flame that burns brightly inside.