FOUND BY GOD TONIGHT
Mar 20th, 2011 by admin
Found by God Tonight 
My Salvation Army rocking chair… a friend of many years,
creaks in just the way it should
with a sound that brings a certain calm instead of annoyance.
There’s a rightness about this sound and how it joins the music of evening tide…
hummingbird bedtime chatter,
howling canines at wandering coyotes,
distant railroad cars intersecting highway noises,
while Mesquite and Palo Verde branches dance in a desert’s hushed breeze.
Needing to be found by God tonight,
I went out on the patio to listen for God to call my name,
Praying for life’s new revelation… anxious about next steps… wondering why I’m here…
Having been given a second chance some twelve years ago.
Regardless that continued efforts defy fulfillment,
Or that dreams disperse in the light of day,
If God would speak to His people of Biblical times… all by name,
Perhaps I would be noticed, sitting here, in unwavering rocking fashion,
Waiting… always waiting… for God’s call to me.
“Yes, Lord,” said Abraham
“Here I am,” spoke Moses
“Your servant is listening,” responded Samuel
“According to your word,” replied Blessed Mary.
And I?
“Lord God of All Creation
I don’t know how to receive the unfathomable love of You knowing my name.”
“But tonight is different.
I want to… need to… allow myself to be found by You.”
“Yes Lord, here I am, your servant is listening, according to your word.”
*****
I notice a bird perching on a telephone pole, some distance away.
We stare in the same direction… westward,
It seems we are both waiting for the cream-hued sunset to take its final bow for the evening.
Suddenly, for no apparent reason, the bird takes flight in my direction
And, in a matter of seconds, swoops disturbingly close overhead.
It is a hawk…
Or has God adorned feathers to speak my name across tonight’s sky and tell me of His love.
*****
Earlier lost in myriad concerns about future,
I now rock in my Salvation Army chair a different rhythm…
One step closer to being found by God tonight, my heart sighs relief,
As the earth closes this first day of Lent.
[Anonymous]