Healing Places!
By The Rev. Dr. Alden E. Sproull
5/18/08

Are not the difficult labors of our lives
full of dark hours?
Suffering rips at the fibers which
hold us together,
waiting in the certainty of uncertainty!

Our breath is caught in expressed hopes,
mixed with haunting doubts.
Consciousness hasn’t taken us very
far, has it?

Our hearts long for a break from the darkness,
toward brilliant light.
This causes us to pull away,
to try seeing beyond the hovering colors
of our gloom!

Troubled by our fears, nurtured by
hospitals greenish blue light.
Oh for the brush of wind on our
faces, as it brings the aroma of fresh
blooming roses!

Breathing deeply of the mythic scents,
believed from another world, our eyes
bathing in the beauty
of the exploding blossoms of
bright colors.

Noticings of renewed hope kindles
from this creative encounter.
Causing us to wonder, why haven’t
we come sooner to this
place of healing?