Presence Church

We come to this place

where we have agreed

that love is presence —

that if you are here

then you are loved,

and in your love is an expansive blessing,

more than we had dared to hope for.

We understand

there will be healing —

not in the sense of change

but as in coming into wholeness,

recognizing what we’ve always been.

We come to this place as refuge 

from other patterns

that we have used to think about each other.

We put those aside here,

we learn not to use them,

we forget about them entirely,

caught up, as we are —

totally transfixed —

in this way of being love.

©Wendy Mulhern

February 12, 2017