When we let secrets out by letting others in freedom comes ~KE

Monday Message

Have you ever held on to a secret about yourself so hard, so long that
you wanted to just run and hide?

Thanks for joining us for Monday’s Message with Abigail Rice and
Trench Classes United. Oday’s poem reveals the freedom that comes
from letting secrets out and letting others in.

When relationships
Seem far
Often times
So is your heart.
There’s a room
With a door
and it’s locked.

You let no one in
Because the secrets
Are too big
Too big
To dig
Too deep
To sit
To be quiet
To get still
and listen to the turn of the locks
Like the gears on a clock

Tick
Tick

Tock!

Any second
It could go off
So you move along
Not wanting to disturb
That demon
In his home

Or confront
The lesser
Of the known

And the cost?
Feeling all alone

and that relationship seems off
Because you would rather be lost
Than have someone find that key
Open the door
and start digging
Real deep…

Because what’s buried beneath
Not even your soul would speak
With a mouth taped closed
You’re left there
To feel all alone

So where do you go?
and how do you know
Which rooms are locked
And who stole your thoughts?

Back to the clock
Back to the time
When you may have crossed over
A most daunting line

Or maybe generations have passed
So you must be brave
and you must ask
For the Holy Spirit to guide you
To take you back
To show you the moment
You must explore
In order to reopen
and unlock that door
To set your soul free,
you must speak

Now is not the time
To run and be weak
For if you run
I’m afraid you’ll never meet
The entirety of you
and all you were created to do

So take that key
and open that room
For you were made
Made to bloom
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“And your life will be brighter than the noonday;
its darkness will be like the morning.”
Job 11:17