Song of Pilgrimage
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| Gustave Dore's Illustration of Dante's Beatific Vision meets Caspar David Friedrich "Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog" |
We trudge along an internal path
A spiral up
A spiral down
Filled with traps and dead ends
We mistake our own alienation for God’s wrath
As we run from our consciences and friends
A game of shoots and ladders
Through false piety and intellectual pride
A blockage here
Misdirection there
We fail to see our own external projections
We pity ourselves for how “hard we’ve tried”
To justify our constant insurrections
While we spew the poison of scorpions and adders
If we are silent and observe our thoughts
We see an abyss
Spewing a river of tar
This deep divide, rooted in fear that masquerades as pride
A division in our nature that corrupts, skews and rots
All outer sins a result of unclean thoughts inside
And with the application of little external stress, our souls shatter
Then the joyful Gospel comes, that “suffering is grace”
Inescapable
Inevitable
The Godman overcame death and the grave
By taking up humanity, uniting us to divinity, expiating every sinful trace
He is unified within Himself to seek and to save, all that which was lost
Restoring a creation to Himself and deifying all matter
And then the Life of the Trinity will be revealed
In Uncreated Glory
And all who find their life in God
Will be held in God's own story
The sea of glass, the tree of life
On the final day of judgment
Will welcome all the saints through fire
Refined through trails and detachment
And when the future Kingdom comes
God's will is truly done
And the fullness of God's grace
Will finally be revealed
Eternal vision of God’s Face
A marriage to the Son
Growth and completion of the human race
In the Incarnation of Our Lord is sealed
So through the fire, we march on
Without fear or frustration
Our one desire, to see the Son
And to achieve the Holy Spirit’s saturation
(3/15/2021, in the Chapel of St. Valentine, before Evening Prayer)
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