Sometimes the drizzle

Sometimes the drizzle of everyday life

Obscures our vision

Weeping down the windows

That separate from the mystery

Of joy, of peace, of grace

We see only blurred remnants

Possibilities of what might be

Deadened memories

Of what we knew to be true

That the rain nurtures

That the sun does shine

That beauty glistens in both

That the window is ours

to open wide 

Embracing hope

or keep tightly closed 

in the comfort of our loneliness