Lose Yourself Along the Way
He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, "If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they give in return for their life? - Mark 8:34-37
this road you pave with your words
and your
broken body and blood poured
it is not on
the lustrous map I bought on Amazon
the Travel
Channel has not done a feature on the highlights and hot spots
there is no
restaurant tour with stops for every palate
and no kitschy giant
dinosaurs to stop and take snapshots with the kids
this way that
you speak of with mouth wide open
is
every dark dream we ever feared might be true
and all that
we wish we could fix about our lot
and the sum
of all we reject and hide in the mind’s black box
hoping we will never lose control and crash into the jungle
and have its contents played for all to hear
but you say
this path, this bumpy road, this crooked cross highway
is the way
of life itself, the gift hidden inside the ugly truth
that we will
indeed know suffering no matter our resistance
but oh, letting
it befriend us we finally have something to live for
something bigger
than ourselves, so trembling we submit
and sink
into your eddy of mercy and welcome the news
we live only
when we have something we are willing to die for
when we know
that our lives in their short span were spent for love
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