Children of Light

Routine is good for children:
feasts to keep,
seasons to celebrate,
signs to seek.
They eat, drink, rejoice
at all the proper times
and sleep securely.

But we are grown.
We struggle to prove all things,
to tell between boundaries
of letter and Spirit.

We remember anxious,
determined Peter in the garden,
unable to watch for a single hour—

we toss and turn in our beds,
restless as we wait
for a Thief in the night.

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