Hope and Help

Irresolute I find myself

Wandering between love of earth

And of Heaven.

Focused on one, but forgetting

The other.

Focused on the other, and forgetting

The One.

How do I find contentment in both?

Earth, in all its verdant beauty, beckons

Me to dig in and accept her for all her faults

And adventures. But my heart gets caught in

The rain and I run for shelter.

The shelter I find in visions of Heaven

Where neither moth nor rust can

Destroy friendships or treasures. Resolute  

To stay in the shelter, I’m called back.

Called back to love the Earth and my fellow

Creatures, cultivating fields of rock and rich

Soil. Opening my soul to the refinement that

Will take place in those fields. Looking

Toward the Creator of Heaven, and clinging

To the Anchor of my soul; my feet digging into

Earthy dust while my eyes look to the

Heavens, where Hope and Help come forth.