Although we think we are all alone,
we are all overflowing
in the margins;
we are filling up the outer-spaces
left by the normal
rule-keepers and
peace-keepers
left by the normal
answer-takers and
non-troublemakers.
We find ourselves recklessly seeking
and moreso even recklessly wondering
what it means to be rule-breakers and peace-makers.
So we wonder around
thinking we are on our own
working toward kingdom come
only to find that the road toward
the kingdom is filled with
rule-breakers and
peace-makers and
law-changers and
question-askers and
justice-singers
story-tellers and
kingdom-bringers.
And it is in this work
that we bump into our counterparts
who have been feeling,
also,
that they are all alone.
But in their work
and in their grieving
and in their praying
and in their hoping
they have bumped into us
and we have bumped into them
and the pity lessens
and the courage strengthens
and we find ourselves joined by so many others
living and trying to live
in the margins
pushing toward
the kingdom come
on earth as it is in heaven.
djordan
Pine Tree
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