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?
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