An Invitation

Let them praise his name with dancing 
  and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
                                                Psalm 149:3

Come, whoever you are,

no matter the boulders of doubt

or dark devastation of faith;

come, with the breathless vacancies 

in your heart

from what has torn

away in the desolate

canyons of loss.

Come, whoever you are

and open 

to His ecstatic love

sustaining all;

come and join

this cosmic dance

of love

in these vanishing halls of time:

then in our falling

we are caught,

in our lost wanderings

we are found,

in our storm-raked ships

we become the shore,

and in dying

 we rise again.