meditation on Matthew 7:7-12
7 “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10 Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him.
12 “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Standing at the door,
my hand suddenly turns to cement,
my arm fused to my side.
knock and the door shall be opened
but what is behind the door?
I want to know --
I was compelled to come here.
seek and ye shall find
but what am I looking for?
it's something.
but what?
I wish it were so simple
as a child asking for a fish
to sate his hunger.
I would give a fish.
But I don't seek fish.
I seek so much more.
How can I ask for what I cannot describe?
What if behind the door
is the answer
to what I am seeking?
And suddenly
my arm unfuses and
my hand is lightened
and I knock,
knowing that what is
over that threshold
is exactly
what I'm looking for.
c. 2019 E. Morisette