Sandra Heska King

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If I’m Still Enough

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Sometimes
when the light
is right
and if I’m
still
enough
I catch the
glitter of
tinsel dust
that floats
above
melted memories
of magic
and mystery
in the waiting
and anticipation
of gifts delivered
in the night
and I long
for simple times
when I delighted
in an unseen
omnipotent giver
and all I had
to do
was
be good.

Yet if I’m
still
enough
I find
the Light
is right
and goodness
seeps from shadows
in the night
and
Omnipotence
passes gentle
gifts
a Gift
and all I have
to do
is
receive.

If I’m still enough.

Written in response to David Wheeler’s prompt to write a poem about Noel ghosts as a Random Act of Poetry for The High Calling.

Linking hearts with Faith Barista Bonnie Gray’s challenge today to unwrap Jesus and celebrate simplicity in Christmas.

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Offering these crumbs in broken communion of other imperfect writers in the advent hush.

Comments

  7. Heidi Avery says

    Beautiful poem. And don’t we all wonder if we are still good enough and isn’t He so good to remind us over and over the Yes, indeed we are!

  12. Faith Barista | Bonnie says

    This was so. Good. Smooth, sweet taste, that is rich because you’ve been living it. Your faith has been brewing and the aroma is unmistakably His. Beautiful poetry that moved my heart, Sandy!

    • Sandra says

      Thanks, David. Your words have given me chill bumps. Here’s the thing. I wanted to write something for your challenge, but nothing came. Then the first lines poured into me when I first woke up, and the whole poem spilled in a matter of minutes. I did not even see the dual connotation. I am in awe. If there’s any good in this, it’s not me.

  18. Ruth says

    Beautiful poem, loved the shape… I also loved how you went from “all I had to do was be good” to “all I have to do is receive” – it left me pondering why, as an adult, receiving seems so very difficult, when really it’s such a simple thing and so much easier than to fit into someone else idea of “being good.”

    • Sandra says

      Thanks for these thoughts, Ruth. Yes, learning to receive can be hard. Is it a control thing? A letting go thing? Childlikeness–that’s my goal.

  24. Courtney Walsh says

    oh, this is perfection.

    i so need this. i am never still. did you know they stoned a man in bible times for gathering wood on the sabbath? i am so convicted about that…trying to stay still and enjoy december and all it has to offer…

    • Sandra says

      Do you think the stillness thing is because we think we have to be doing to be good–instead of just being?

  27. shannon says

    I lived most of my life trying to be “enough”…now I know I don’t have to be.
    thank you for your words!

  31. Shaunie Friday says

    This is truly beautiful Sandra! How I long for stillness in a terribly disquieting, noisy world. He IS my quiet place, my source of stillness, and you reminded me where to run when all within me is cacophony!

  34. Sheila Hollinghead says

    I wondered if you had thought of the two meanings of “still.” That’s simply amazing how it flowed that way. This poem makes me incredibly jealous of your talent (and I’m having to beat down that green-eyed monster). This is one of the best poems I have ever read–no exaggeration.

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