A Desert Meditation

A Desert Meditation took first place this week in the FaithWriters weekly word challenge, advanced category.

Early mornings in the Sonoran Desert

eternity teases you off the treadmill of time

draws you up into the stillness of a moment.

Hold a pose then, like the Saguaro Cactus –

spiney arms goal posted to frame the sky

prickly limbs pointing – There! See?

shoulders holding a perfect port de bras of praise

so gather eternity inside you like water

feel it transpire from ramified roots

to cool and nourish the thirst in your soul.

While time hangs a misty veil over the valley

and eternity beckons you to the desert edge

walk the White Tank Mountain trail

stand where water pooled in the rocks

to sustain the Hohokam

let the Word petroglyphed on your heart

give mute testimony to the One who

walked this earth before time.

Like the Saguaro Cactus

know that your roots in this world are shallow

let your reservoirs tap Living Water

Christ in you, the hope of glory.