Another Road

 

   Having been warned in a dream
              not to return to Herod,
              they left for their own country by another road.
                                          —Matthew 2.12


The star behind us, a new year rising,
just when we thought the search was over
and the treasure found, we hear a warning
to repent, to change our ways,
to embark on a new unknown
off the road where we're at home.

But we welcome it.
This old one was awful.
The year was hard, the way was rocky.
For all the danger and cruelty
we're glad not to return to
we give thanks for this gift, so needed, from God:
another road.

Thank you. We'll take it.

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Friends, I pray the new year brings you
stronger connection with the Divine,
deeper trust of your belovedness,
greater will to love,
and hearts more full of gratitude, wonder and joy.
Welcome, 2021.


Deep Blessings,
Steve Garnass-Holmes, unfoldinglight.net, December 31, 2020