This Luminous Mystery

It feels like
falling in love;
this venturing 
further in;
a new baptism 
in deeper, 
clearer water. 

It feels like falling in love;
stepping out of the river, 
to dance at a wedding feast,
where, at His Holy Mother's behest,
the Divine Guest turns
that very water into wine.
Though already drunk with love,
without reserve, now comes the best. 

It feels like falling in love;
this wild churning
and heart burning,
then settling in Stillness,
and finding the Kin-dom
is indeed there, within. 

It feels like falling in love;
this profound Invitation;
a glimpse of True Being;
seeing Self and All Creation aright,
through the Lens of Everliving Light.

It feels like falling in love;
becoming wheat, threshed;
bread, broken; fruit, ripened,
picked, pressed; aged sweet,
warm, and deep; Earth and Heaven 
mingle and meet for the feeding
and the freeing of the world. 

It feels like falling in love; 
This Threshold~
This Luminous Mystery. 

~Cheryl Anne Maris