ANNUNCIATION

As my lifetime’s clock ticks on

The relentless searching continues

Hour by hour, day after day unwinding

The longing for completion, yet for newness

In limited time, longing during my short stay

Yet empty I must be to be filled full

And ready to receive His grace

Open to not my plan but His will

Searching on empty for what I need

Not mine, but His for my soul to fill

As our sweet Lady Immaculate

In her time of expectation for other lifeways

Heard the call in her innocence

From the Angel God had sent

And said yes, I am open to His grace

In the quiet roar of life’s diversion I must listen

Through my mind’s noise and distraction

Moving it aside, searching for the silence

The calm I need after inner storm

To truly hear, for His love’s call to consider

Is my heart open? Is it open wide?

Releasing the fears that fill inside

With welcoming tears of sudden joy

To share in His pain and in sweet sorrow

Yet filled again with happy cries deploy

Unencumbered I listen, I must

In His will forever like Her so trust

In His will until He comes again

Through His angel sent to foretell

The coming Jesus, eternal God-friend

For, from arms wide spread He reaches

To draw all to His own

From His cross of my making

To announce warm welcome to His home

He offers this to all in love for my taking

Help me listen profoundly for His annunciation

That time when His angel so speaks to me

Of what I must accept to truly be

And places on my heart’s clear wall

His message, so revealing His plan for me

As He then awaits my response to His call

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