Building

We go each day to the house

to see how we will be built,

what skills and insight, what endurance

will arise in us to meet the day’s demands

For we do not come static

to any task, nor do we come

with a collected stash of virtue

to test ourselves against what is required

We come to grow, we come to change,

we come to learn,

we come to be made new,

to be transformed,

and more than what we make

with wood and nails and stone,

this will be our building,

this will be our home.

©Wendy Mulhern

September 24, 2019