Aug 23: Mind the gap

There’s a gap sometimes

Between what is and what was expected.

Between the hoped for and reality,

Like the void from an extracted tooth,

The tongue continually probing

Continually re-minding.

There is a gap

Between what I know about God

And what I experience of him.

Between the revealed and the relational.

Between the head and the heart.

Between orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

The awareness of the gap

Both increases longing and

At times frustration or,

Dare I say anger,

Sitting like a festering wound

Or grating grinding background noise.

Like the raw grief for something that never was.

How does one mind the gap

In a healthy way?

Live into the void?

Live the question?

Love the mystery?

Accept or mourn?

Cry out or strike out?

I don’t know.

But I do know,

I want you to know,

I mind the gap.

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From Dan's book Listen to your Life