Lent 15: beyond the wilderness.

"Moses led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was burning but not consumed." -Exodus 3:1-2

Go to edge
of what you know
out beyond the wilderness
to where a mystery
is burning
like a wild fire.
Go to the place
that terrifies you,
and requires the risk
of everything.
Go, seeking that which will
never be domesticated.
Go where some
uncontainable voice
is calling your name.
Go to the mountain
of questions
where you are
your most vulnerable.
And then
take off your shoes
to feel the brush of God
against your naked feet.
And call that place Holy.
Not because of
its location on a map;
but because it is
where you were changed;
where a voice ancient
and familiar beckoned;
where you became
who you are.