We’re all in a race
A complicated race
Where many opportunities abound
Good opportunities
Right opportunities
Seductive opportunities
Necessary opportunities
Opportunities like a rubber-band ball ~
Tightly wound
Criss-crossing, intersecting
Colors alluring and inviting
And sometimes
All knotted up.

We all need space
Time
And Place
to ponder our rubber-band balls.
We need to meet God
Our Shepherd, our Friend
We need to meet God
Face to face.
We’re all in a race
A complicated race
Where many opportunities abound.
We need to meet God
Our Shepherd, our Friend
We need to experience His grace,
His overflowing grace.

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend.”
Exodus 33:11