Can you say, "I Am the Way, the Truth, and the
Life"?
Thou Art I Am
Thou art I Am
Thou art my life
Thou art for me what I'm not yet
Thou art God's image in my soul
Thou art the meaning of it all
Thou art not other, though it be
That I fall short perpetually
For what I am is You in me
And I in You eternally
I look to You, but not in fear
Your love is unconditional
When I love you, I feel your love
That love endures, reciprical
I Am,
What would you be in me, I Am? How am I to recognize my
mistakes, I Am. How should I react to these mistakes, I Am? How
might I be for You more worthily, I Am? How might I hold to you
more faithfully, I Am?
Is courage paramount? What of guilt? What of fear? What of
insecurity? . . . the "they"? . . . anxiety? Are these--my
nemeses, my mortal sins--are these, alone, by Thee condemed?
Are some actions vicious in themselves? Or is it merely the
motive that makes them vicious? Are actions performed in faith,
hope, and love immune from guilt? While those born of unbelief,
despair, and malice, are they, perhaps, condemned already?
And what is the nature of true repentence--not remorse and
self-laceration, surely!?
How might I live more nobly, more corageously, more
faithfully, more lovingly, more hopefully? How might I alway live
with Master's intention displayed in my life? How might I be true
to mySelf. Is it possible to be true to oneSelf without being true
to one's fellows?
And how do I know if I am on the Way and not sidetracked? Are
feelings to be trusted? Am I now to the point where I might trust
myself? Is MySelf immanent enough for that?
I feel such joy, such passion, such life! And yet Golgotha is
our destiny, one and all. How am I to approach Jerusalem. Not my
will, but thine be done, Oh Lord, my love, my life, mySelf. When
i am weak, then I Am strong.
For all our life should be baptizing and the fulfilling
of the sign, or sacrament of baptism; we have been set
free from all else and wholly given over to baptism
alone, that is, to death and resurrection. This glorious
liberty of ours, and this understanding of baptism have
been carried captive in our day.
--M. Luther
That I may know Him, and the power of His ressurection,
and the fellowship of His sufferings, if by any means I
might attain to the ressurection of the dead (Phil. 3).
And what of Dionysus? Is He also a symbol of mySelf, my love, my
life, my destiny? That assurance that life is at bottom
ineradicably powerful and pleasurable? And the assurance that no
matter how many times we are ripped to pieces, Rhea will restore us
once again. Is not the myth of Dionysis a ressurection myth, sans
the Judeao-Christian (legalistic) moral consciousness?
(Composed in Fall 1992 or Winter 92/93)
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