Finding Myself in Brethren, in Lent 2000
poem by Peter Menkin

Where my self-forgettingLove is hid,

I know

In my clinging to the Christ,

In the cleft of the rock

I am unto you all hearts

Are open, no secrets hid.

I fathom on in my mortal

Weakness seeking the heart

Again to witness my faith

Knowing you are all--a Word.

New life is granted us, the me

Of being in the following--

The master to the body

that is him, incarnate,

heavenly Church.

Forgive my wretched masks, my

Deceptions, my strengths of

Bone, pride, and many wishes.

Complete me in prayer, and as

A swift arrow, hear me, Lord.

My life; I come.