Authorship

Well, here’s the story of redemption:

You are redeemed, for you are here.

It takes attention 

to choose you for a story,

to put you in,

to hedge about your life

with these meticulous details,

to give you motives,

give you a past,

give you this burning hope

that somehow

your life has worth and purpose:

It takes an overarching care

to author you. And look —

you’re here.

Know, too, that there’s no character

the author doesn’t love.

It is the way of things —

the way creation works:

The act of care that thinks you up

(pulls you, as her child, 

right out of her head)

is always an act of love.

So have no fear.

You are redeemed

and always have been.

Just look inside yourself to see —

You’ll know.

©Wendy Mulhern

March 10, 2015