The drama has faded 
into the faith that has brought me here. 
The chains, 
and the blisters they caused, 
have disappeared
into the reality of where You live. 
I need nothing else to sustain my spirit, 
for I know the love Your heart will give.

*With thanks to Ted Nottingham for Chapter 8 in his remarkable work, The Spiritual Origins of the Fourth Way: Reuniting the Lost Fragments of a Sacred Teaching