This Place, This Cup
everything that has gone
before
has brought me to this place
every cup of joy, every cup
of sorrow
the cup of liberating
service,
the cup of drudgery and duty
the cup of friendship and of
betrayal
the cup of pilgrimage and of stagnation
the cup of success and of
failure
the cup of hard-fought victory
and of unexpected defeat
the cup of belonging and
family
and of disintegration, death and divorce
the cup of peace and
contentment
and of strife and confusion
the cup of adoption and
acceptance
and of abandonment and rejection
the cup of love, mercy and grace
and of bitterness and unforgiveness
the cup of repentance and
reconciliation
and of withdrawal and estrangement
the list is endless of all
the cups
that are the one cup from which
i have sought to quench my thirst
every cup, every sip, the one cup
has brought me to this place
this place?
a place of new life, new
hope,
new love, new home, new family
a new beginning with a new
cup
a cup of overflowing
abundance
and of
fresh expectation
a cup of rest, recovery and
healing
His Cup taken from His Hand
“And He took a cup, and
when He had given thanks
He gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink of it, all
of you…’”
“I will lift up the cup of
salvation
and call on the Name of the LORD.”
-
mark d. cooke, 8-13-24
