Spirit departs

After 1 Samuel 18:12-18 

What happens when

the spirit, the anointing

departs? The knowledge

of abandonment, 

the vacuum of absence,

the pain is loss all aching

to be filled, and filled

it is, with its opposite,

a curse, an evil spirit

taking control, control

of the heart. The jealousy

grows, the fear escalates,

anything becomes

acceptable to control

the fear, to tame what

is now seen as the enemy.

The spirit of light departs;

the spirit of darkness has

arrived.

 

Photograph by Nsey Benajah via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

“The Withered Leaf,” poem by William Lisle Bowles – D.S. Martin at Kingdom Poets.

 

Many Things Keep Happening – Spencer Klavan at The New Jerusalem.

 

Stone and Flesh – poem by Alex Kneen at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

“Through Every Age, Eternal God,” hymn by Isaac Watts – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

Clouds – poem by Seth Lewis.