The Way

This is the way

You are the Way

It is your very self

Alone, here with you in silence

Your breath kisses the pines overhead

Your warmth shining down

You are here

I remember the desert fathers

Abraham out under the stars every night

Moses alone with you for 40 years

Let this be my path too

Alone with the God of the ancients

Listening to you

Talking with you

Being your son

It's all I want

To talk with your and be yours

My Father's son

My Savior's brother

Fill me, use me, know me

Like a man knows his wife

Covering me, entering me

Fulfilling my every true desire

Speak to me, your servant listens

Oh, just to be with you

To know you this way

To be found in you, one with you

Abandoned to you

Wholly yours, yours and none other's

Committed, consecrated

Covenanted to you

So I come to you

Giving myself to you

All I have to offer

Nothing withheld

Nothing hidden

Determined to be yielded

Choosing to scorn the shame

No matter the pain

No matter the fearsomeness of the path

No matter how humble

Take this life

Do with me as you please

This is truly the way

Come, Lord, Mighty God

In all your indescribable beauty

Whisper to me again

Breathe on me again

Let me know your nearness

The sweetness of your breath

Your kind words over me

You are my portion

You are my heart's desire

To know you

Father, my Father

All the fullness of your Glory

Unfolding forever before me

In ever deepening splendor

As You reveal yourself more

Intimately, every day

Until the days are no more

And then on into eternity

This is the way for me

Stephen Pursell, 7/2/14