Naming the "Knowing"

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                Naming the "Knowing"


                The suffering continues:
                From "I" to "it", from time to place.
                To name the dimness
                That smudges beneath my face.
                Remotely near:
                Caught between time.
                The phantom "knowing",
                Moves, hushed, through slime.

                Is this how I perceived you:
                Darkly, and without sight?
                Anonymously troubling
                This day and this night?
                Impression without expression:
                Nameless, wandering loss.
                A missing, empty cipher:
                Marked by a cross.

                Your "knowing" never left me:
                It kept me spinning-still.
                I did not feel empty,
                Just unable to take my fill.
                I name you now,
                Because you sought me out.
                Aware that I hungered-
                Faith smothered by doubt.

                Journeying into prayer:
                Ending the sloth and the fear.
                Savoring the Word:
                Understanding "it" became "here".
                Shedding life-less skin:
                Going down, through water.
                Offering my tongue,
                Drowning this nameless daughter.

"For now we see through a glass, darkly;  but then face to face:  now I 
know in part;  but then shall I know even as also I am known."  (1 
Corinthians 13:12)

Both my husband, Vito, and I are new to Pentecost and new to the 
prayer-net.  The Lord had been so intimately graceful with us.  We need 
His Will for our lives, in our daily lives.  It seems so important to 
me to daily understand what we have, and realisze that the stakes are 
so high.  We both come from families who are lost:  those stakes often 
have more poignancy when those that we love do not know their Saviour.  
Pray for revival, in the precious name of Jesus.
Rachel LoCascio.