I am here
as I have never been
before

I've been on this path before
in this very spot before
so many times before
over countless years before

and yet ...

it is not the same
as it was before

I am not the same
as I was before

it does not have to be
as it was before

same path
same spot
new choices

I am here
as I have never been
before

With thanks to a couple lines from Wendell Berry’s poem “Rembember that it happened once” for inspiration found during our Lectio Divina practice a few weeks back.