"If I were..." Mary and Martha

Vantages

There was a bird
riding the wind
rising up and up-

how I wished
that I were him!

But I am a woman
sticking to ground
waiting tick and tock-

how I hope
to be unbound,

and fly this survey of forests hidden by trees.

At some point Mary and Martha had to give up their wonderings and embrace the unknown...the mystery that God is.
Jesus raised their brother.
Those questions were answered.
But then-
Jesus died.
Another three dark and awful days they waited-
before He was back to answer more questions.
This rhythm of desperation and rejoicing
of doubt and faith
of searching and seeing
This is life.
He rustles around us and with us even when we can't see Him, feel Him, hear Him
and we are left to wonder.
But mystery is not our enemy.
Mystery can be our friend
taking our hand 
pulling us into trust.
after all, 
"Faith IS the evidence
of things unseen..."
Hebrews 11:1