The Thin Places

As we linger in thin places caught ‘twixt heaven and earth

A veil that covers vision won’t yield for all it’s worth

Here in the in-between place where the skies and dust collapse

We walk in the ineffable where words can become traps

We wait for the collision, we pray  the veil be torn

Our cities lay deserted and not a soul will mourn

Escort me into glory, Lord, I’m waiting on the way

There will be no time to kill  on time’s dying day

And I will seek the thin places  right here in my soul

Walk through the bleak battlefields beyond my control

The words may be a-failing, and the prayers might turn to groans

But my heart is saturated  and there’s fire within my bones

There’s fire within my bones.

I feel my spine a-shiver and the mundane I transcend

I go down to the river where there is no bitter end

More than residual rapture and more than what I seek

Divinity reveals its light there beyond Zion’s peak.

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I stand stunned within the silence and I fear I’ll be undone

For holy  are these moments here with the Holy One

Open my mind open my heart and draw me closer in

And up and out and over  where there is no thought of sin

And I will seek the thin places  right here in my soul

Walk through the bleak battlefields beyond my control

The words may be a-failing, and the prayers might turn to groans

For my heart is saturated  and there’s fire within my bones

There’s fire within my bones.

Anthony Foster

February 15, 2022