When the Student is Ready

Like a box
that needs
opening
to find
the treasure
that lies within,
we dig around
the inner
resources
of our being
and find
what nuggets
have been
stored away
in lessons
learned.

Oh, how right
we can
seem to be!

So adamantly
headstrong
and stubborn
in our sacred
beliefs,
yet blind
to the truth
that stands
between us
and others
we have not
a glimpse
and will have
none of it!

Our minds
are shut,
access
to Fort Knox
would be
easier
than trying
to get
through
to us!

But Lo,
someone does...

with a gentle
suggestion
and question

introducing a
new possibility

a chance to
start down
a different
path to healing.

Having had
to swallow
our pride and
righteousness
and learn to
move forward
again in our lives
will seem easy,
actually
once the initial
resistance
is passed
for we had
long been ready
having had little
hope that a
seeming miracle
would pull us
out of some
bottomless pit,
"rescued" at last.


Why us?
Why now?

When the student
is ready...



Copyright © 2012 Gary Frates