Faith

Lyrics of Conviction

Believing the water 
Clear with no seafloor
Unchanging substance 
Obliged to erode

Refracting reflecting  
Drought seeping dry 
Streaming in veins  
That pulse with the season 

Hidden and riddled 
I don’t know the season
Under your eyebrow 
Under your rib

Dripping and crashing 
But not like a seashore
That moves for the moon  
Preparing the tides

Feel the wet

Stand the cold

Drew me under 


Shades uninvited 
Exploring un-rhythm
By chanting the ancients 
For stars that can’t sing

Indefinite color 
Flowing down mountains
Or crushed on the jetty 
Or caught in my hand

What picture books color 
We stain it a memory 
While sources concur  
I had to believe

Your hue of the ocean  
And river and tide pool 
Afraid they tinge value  
That I may not have seen

How does it look

When you look

At the water


Observing un-tinted 
I don’t know if it’s real
Transparently absent 
A dream-colored blue

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What color is faith? Our Lord is both seen and unseen, confusing and comforting those who want to believe. But simply gazing at your own faith, or the faith of someone else, is as slippery as a handful of water. What do you think?

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REFLECT

on the Words that God first gave to us. Meditate on the Truth that has made any of our words mean anything…

• READ Isaiah 6:9-13

• READ John 12:35-43

• READ John 20:28-31