In the summer of 2015, I was able to do a 30 day silent retreat. During this anointed month, there were many beautiful moments in prayer, and as I returned home, there was a poem idea that had begun to take shape which was centered on the contrast between the light of the mountain of the Transfiguration and the mountain of the Agony in the Garden. I would like to share this poem as one of the fruits of and a testament to an absolutely life-changing month of silence and solitude with Jesus. Two PeaksEverything we have is from the Father
And our destiny lies with Him, no other There are two peaks on this journey toward communion Two summits on the way to our Heavenly reunion Two situations we all find throughout this blessing of life One of light and ease, the other of sin and strife But we have a trailblazer, an exemplar in which to follow The God-man who experienced both our greatest joy and deepest sorrow As our journey goes on, it is His ascension we tirelessly seek And this journey bids us to climb toward both of these peaks One Christ scaled with companions on his way The other climbed on the eve of his last day One of light which poured from heaven like a flood The other remembered by sweat like droplets of blood One where the apostles desired dwellings that would last The other where He pleaded for the cup to pass One where the Father recognizes the Son as Beloved The other where the Lamb is prepared for the new covenant One where He was flanked by Elijah and Moses The other where in a garden, He was betrayed with a kiss These summits display the process for us all As we continue to journey back from the fall These peaks however are not our end As a third mountain shows itself on the horizon This peak is the greatest of them all We walk the bloodstained way to the place of the skull At the top of this hill, a place of seemingly so much loss But wait… It has been transformed… To the marriage bed of the cross This is the place of the Bridegroom’s eternal self-gift This is the time when the burden of sin begins to lift This is the place where the veil of His flesh was torn This is the time when from His side the Church was born We are restored to the favor of the Father above Invited into the Trinity, the eternal exchange of love This love is revealed as full of passion, willing to suffer And experienced in the beloved through the gaze of the Lover This all happens at this place of death and tears Through His agony, pain, death, and fears This place where innocence is only defaced by unlawful conviction But clothed in so great a love that the cross is merely a contradiction
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