Beloved, not bitter.Lots of exchanges.

How in the world could I be bitter

When every day is some new revelation of love?

As the revolution turns,

It dips me deeper within and then flips me right side out.

I have every reason and every right to be bitter.
I’ve plummeted into some crazy depths

Mostly not of my own doing

My body has experienced the pain of recovery

Because recovery doesn’t come easy.

But if it came easy,

Would we know the Voice

That speaks us into being

Even half as well?

I struggled for a long time

Being around folks

Who said that God never says anything hard

Never leads us through the valley of the shadow

Never course corrects us.

Because I know God as the only One who never leaves me.

The One who walks with me in the middle of nowhere

Who sticks by me when everyone else leaves.

God sticks to me like Honey.

This is why I am letting the bitterness slide

To be replaced with honey

That binds up wounds.


Did you know that the ancients

Used honey as an antiseptic?

Sweetness heals.

There is a sweetness in God

That heals quicker and faster

Than any counseling, healing modality or physical building

That I know.

Not against these things.

Very much into these things.

Very much will go toe to toe with you, dollar for dollar,

Hour for hour on all the above.

Health is worth investing in

Body, Mind, Soul, Spirit.

But there is a place

Beyond all that I can do

Where the sweetness of God

Comes in and takes the sting.