Spiritual Lens June 24, 2013 Issue

A life corrected

Christopher Jones
distorted reflections in water
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Ambitious, I wanted it all.
It took years, but I finally built
“the perfect life,” the one
that would make me happy forever.
Or so I thought! 

One day it all collapsed,
and so great was the fall of it that
I didn’t think I could go on.
That was the moment I first felt God
just loving me. 

Now I have His bread to feed me,
His staff to lean upon.
I come, moment by moment, 
     to His well,
eager,
expectant,
joyful,*
imbibing the perfect life
that was always mine,
rejoicing that I will never thirst again.

—Christopher Jones

* See Elizabeth C. Adams, Christian Science Hymnal,
No. 58

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