Dawn:

You wake me at the very peak of dawn. You beckon me to come with you for you desire to show me marvelous things. I long to see, but my heart is scared... I want to go so much deeper into your majesty but I know that your justice is at its right hand. Even so you pull me in, and tell me to pick up my cross and follow you with all that I am. Still I cry out selfishly and try to hold tight to "my possessions" as if I own them. You draw me closer still and smile over me and I feel your love immerse me like the sun rising and captivating each shadow with warmth so great! I avoid and you nudge me more in the direction that pleases you. I insist on following my broken compass when you have never stopped offering one that was made perfect for me. I tell you my struggling and fighting was all for not, but you gently reply by telling me to spread my wings and fly. I doubt that my form has changed and tell you again I'm scared that I am still the same "caterpillar" I was before all this but you insist still that if I would only trust that I would see what I truly have become, a butterfly pure and strong! All of a sudden the brilliant sun sheds light on every part of me and I see that my colors are radiant. More than that, I have wings and as they begin to dry I feel the fear rush away and an urge to fly surge through to the very tips of my wings. Before I know it, I'm in the air and the view is much different than before because I can see it all so clear. Each gust of wind forces me to gain more strength and every turn causes my accuracy to grow and I notice not one moment have you stopped soaring with me... This dawn is the one I let go and you showed me what I can truly be! Thank you!