When Your Gift

 

When your gift doesn't make room for you

usher you anywhere at all

even though the word says it will--

wait

look 

it'll come:

the small chance 

seize it

fill that gap 

with your gift.

No one noticed? 

On the main road, maybe not, but

along that dusty path

around back

over the bridge

through the tunnel

years and a half from now

someone, God-appointed, sees

and says,

"Aren't you...? Didn't you...?"

The small chance comes again

different shape

place

time

seize it again

fill that gap

with your gift.

And someone else,

even if only one someone else,

sees.

While you wait, perhaps God waits too

for others to learn

they need what you have

for you to learn

it belongs at His feet

and the door to the holy place

opens a crack

and one greater says,

"Aren't you...? Didn't you...?

"Would you...?"

When your gift makes room for you

ushers you in

because God said it would,

go in on your knees

go in with your readiness

go in with integrity

go in, in Him

because you've been ushered

into the presence

of the Great.