solemnity and silence

Scriptural Reference: Job 2:12, 13 (The Message Version)

'When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job.

They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.'

Selah.

i can do no more than breathe.

i do not dare whisper or mouth the words i write.

i say them in the silence of my mind.

in honor of the solemnity, i sit, with those who weep, in silence.

my eyes gaze upon the tear stained face.

i see their eyes turn slowly from dirty earth and then timidly upward to gaze into heaven's broad sky.

i can do no more than be still.

i have no glib or sincere reply.

i wait.

watching the sun rise and settle into starless night skies.

i steep in the slow ache of hope.

praying as swaying wind blown shadows around the naked pain.

leaning hard upon ancient texts that promise the Peace of Heaven's Prince is here.

Selah.

on a narrow road

we tread single file

no matter how near

our hearts love does bind us

each to the other in time

we sit

stone still

in silent solemnity

to honor the vigil

of hopeful wordless prayer

and unspoken fathoms of pain

Selah

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