What Awakens God in the Middle of the Night?

 

Perhaps God awakens with joy

 over those of us who long for love

as a deer pants for a flowing stream

and give our whole lives

for one moment of divine union

Maybe it’s anguish over the ways we smother love

by setting forest fires in our souls

or the ways we harness one another

to our smoldering pain

What if God awakens just to accompany us

on our treacherous path into the dark woods

of our own awakening

I’d like to think God

awakens in the middle of the night

just to be with me

 ©Janet O. Hagberg, 2006

Reflections on this poem

How do you think God reacts to your feelings and behavior?

How do you experience God caring about what happens in your life?

Do you ever talk with God or listen for God in the middle of the night?

How does it feel that maybe God really cares enough about you to want to spend some free time just with you?