I went inside

After Psalm 73:17-28

I went inside the sanctuary,

embracing its darkness and cool,

its relief from the searing heat

outside, the failure I feel as

I watch others succeed, and 

here in this cool darkness

I begin to see, at first only

a single candle, it, but the light

grows, until I see where it all

ends, what the point is, that

my failure is not failure and

their success is not success.

There is a plan, there is a reward,

there is judgment, there is love,

and I see I was holding

the wrong end of the stick and

beating myself with it.

Their ways are not his ways,

my ways are not his ways,

but my ways will be.

Photograph by Pau Casals via Unsplash. Used with permission.