Intertwined

God weaves our lives together for a time

We experience our time as intertwined

and held in the bounds of sacred journey

As we listen, learn, and truly begin to know each other

Then comes the time where our journeys divert onto different paths

We live in different worlds separated by a continent, and ocean

Yet as we live together we are not so different

We are held together by Spirit, living a gospel in our lives

As we stand side by side, doing the work God has given us

Tilling the soil of friendship and love, working toward a goal

Laughing, eating, sharing, loving, surprised by God's unity

Not seeing all of the things which others do

That would keep us apart not daring to come to the waters

Of understanding and knowing each other in new ways

Because the gospel is proclaimed in how we walk

Whether we see with the eyes of different and other

Or whether we see the each as being created in the image of God

It is born in each of us, revealing the sacred chords of love

Plunging us deeper into the story of God's grace and mercy

Abounding in stories of hardship, challenge, and peace

Knowing we are intersecting in shared story for a time

And God smiles at the act of becoming one people

Involved in the sacred story of the ages

Listening at one another's fires and melded together

By the Spirit of God