Gifted by Charissa Sylvia

We go outside to listen
to the Giver’s eternal song.
It wills us to remember
what we forgot that day
in the garden
(and every day since):
that he is ever near.
Above,
behind,
beside
and before
in the bones and threads and dirt
of this gifted earth.

Charissa Sylvia is a pastor's wife and homeschooling mama writing from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She writes on the ancient, mountain peaks surrounded by contemplative silence and profound mystery. Ok, just kidding. She writes in a small apartment looking at a busy road with rooms full of cats and kids and mysteriously spilled drinks as well as a hopeful eye towards the light and the firm belief that the ground right under her feet is holy.