I’ve been reflecting on dignity lately. The dignity of knowing who I am and Whose I am. Dignity and shamelessness go hand-in-hand. Since being more open about my same sex attraction and other aspects of my journey, I have been learning to live with less shame. Now I find myself asking what it would mean to live with more dignity.
More thoughts on this later. But for now, a poem. I unearthed this one—I’m not sure when or where I wrote it. I tweaked it a bit. I hope you enjoy.
Thunder
Sin makes Thunder
Sound like a judge’s gavel.
In a silent, looming
Courtroom, a sentence
Has been read, and rain
Falls in loud curtains,
A cleansing cacophony.
Why can’t I live
Like I’ve been died for?
Why can’t I unlive
A past fraught with failing
To believe the greatest
Death, the greatest love
Is enough to wash
And make ready this stage
For the next Act?
Let the storm rumble,
Shame falling in
One final booming echo.
All may rise now.
Yes I see you living this out!! You have no shame because God only sees you through the lens of Jesus’ sacrifice!!