Know-Love-Obey God

(For L.L. Barkat’s writing prompt at High Calling Blogs)

When you were seventeen I dreamed
grand dreams of the woman you would be.
You would swim in glory across a wide channel
of the world’s high esteem.
Bringing in six figures at least,
you would run with your colleagues
hot on the trail of research.
You would write the textbooks
your children and grandchildren would use.

But Someone walked into the dream,
a holy invasion of thoughts and dreams.
He began teaching you how to attract
His attention, His high esteem.
He gave you the desire of your heart
and planted your feet on a different road.
He has given you Kingdom-building work
in the nursing of a babe, and another and another,
in the cool washcloth on a fever-flamed brow,
in the read-alouds again and again,
in filling the pantry and their bellies with good,
in filling their hearts and souls with the Kingdom-Word.
Now you soar in the every day,
every day growing His Kingdom.
Thank God, I awoke, and the reality
is better than the dream.