A Thousand Things

 There are a thousand things 

I must do, Lord.

You know this.

Clothes to be mended,

pictures to be hung,

towels to be returned,

parties to be given,

people to be loved.

Yet I cannot seem to free myself from You.

You keep pulling at my heart.

When I can be torn no longer

I stop

surrender all of me to You.

And in this moment there is

such joy, such peace, such fullness.

Why didn't I stop sooner, Lord,

Heed the calling of my heart?

For I easily could have missed you

in the thousand things I still must do.

-Betty Skinner

from "The Hidden Life"