Saturday, February 2, 2013

Alabaster Jar

Lift up my heart to you O Lord
Take it and hold it close to thee

Feel it
Taste it
Smell it

Hold it in your gaze

Let the pungent odor of Mary's alabaster jar
fill my nostrils till my breath is swept away
in your thought

ahhhh

the perfume

Feel it
Taste it
Smell it

Thine heart and mine are one
beating in rhythm with the same breath

O Mary that I may be the alabaster jar that
you broke open and held over the head of the Loved One

May I be the perfume that he feels running down
his hair, soaking his beard and penetrating his clothes.


May I be the taste that meets his inward breath.

May I be the smell that surrounds him.

ahhhh

to have caused all this commotion


ahhhhh
to be that alabaster jar ---



  

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