Own your life,

With all of who you are.

With a lifetime of achievement and failure,

With all of the feelings of  great pleasure and pain.

Own your heart and it’s hidden hope

The silent beating has fed.

For the fire that still burns,

For the promise that it remembers,

And the vow given to believe that what matters most is love.

Own your soul,

And the spirit that has led you to find

The kingdom of light,

And the vision that has fed your direction to truth,

With the morsels left over from the feast of Heaven.

Offer all of yourself and the hidden despair

As kindling for the fire that burns as a sacrifice

 of a lifetime on the lonely path home.

Offer yourself to your life

And Love all of who you are

For the Rooster crows and the dawn is near,

And the time has come to hear the knocking at the door.

And Who, but You can emerge from the mists of the worlds illusions

To reach for heaven glory and hold out a hand to those who follow.

Who but the ones who tread this path.

Who wait to hear the call

And who can open the door and say Yes,

 to the Baptism of this life, and this precious experience of being human.

And who is willing to be born again to the truth

Of who they are, and who can laugh at the cross knowing

It is only the cry of the absolution of love that says

Yes to the merging of Union of God and Man.