Indwelling- dwelling here

Why am I always looking for an escape?

In another place

Can I not be in the center of my own life?

In the center- here and now?

Surely God is with me in the mundane

If His Spirit is at home within my body

Can I not be at home here too?

For here and now, in my very being

Is where God dwells!

Can I own, acknowledge,

The problems,

The mundane

The sacred

That is happening here- within and around me

Instead of looking for an escape

Or seeking solace in another place

I have been looking for understanding

When all along it is you God, who understands me

You who knows my inmost being

I have been looking for comfort-

A place or person of comfort-

When all along the God of all comfort lives in me!

I have been looking to justify

Myself,

My struggles,

My choices

To someone else, anyone else…

If God himself would choose to dwell in me

Maybe I can choose to dwell here too.