To learn to wait

After Luke 11:9-13

To learn to wait

is to learn to trust

to believe

to endure

to deepen

to mature

To learn to wait

is to recognize

truth from desire

to distinguish

deserve from need

to understand

need is faith and

faith is showing up

and faith is learning

and to wait for him

to give us himself.

He knows before

we ask.

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A trinity

After Luke 11:9-13

We ask because we want

or desire or we need or trust;

we ask in youth from the heart,

from the love of a child.

We ask in innocence,

the opposite of knowledge.

We seek because we’re lost,

or driven by a consuming hunger

of spirit, of mind, of heart.

We seek in maturity from the heart

of a man.

We knock because we’re polite;

we want admission to what’s within,

on the other side of the door,

We knock in old age because we know

we do not deserve an open door.

And the promise is

it will be given

it will be found

it will be opened.

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