Presence Transcends

Presence transcends

Drowned in family tragedy, despairing, distraught--
that morning earlier;
thus down encumbered,
he came to worship meeting, but not speaking
of his family’s severe circumstance, kept that hidden;

But in the midst
of open expectant communion, Transcendent Light, broke through tragedy— when another Quaker suddenly started singing,
a cappella spiritual chorus--
a deep songing deepening within;

intense meaning lifted us gathered in invisible communion--
vivid encouraging Hope;

That sacred chorus didn’t negate shattered-glass
lives, nor end countless distraught
circumstances and heartaches--
but
Oh, what Hope
Fulled us up within.



In the Light of the Good, the True, the Just,

Daniel Wilcox