We are always looking for arrival.
God seems less interested
In this
than we are.

How many times have I thought "but...
They just got here.... just were called for this....just seemed to be getting somewhere.... "

Just got home from their honeymoon
Just got the savings
Just found their way back to family
Just got the ministry job
Just bought the lake house
Just figured it all out

I was trained by movies
They have trained us wrong

There are no arrivals
here
Without exits
There are no homes we won't leave
No people who never change
No bodies remain unscathed


And it's the growing
That is our arrival
We are being formed
We are (please, God) learning

Our solid places are in seeking,
In awaiting,
In living,
in becoming

Our plans, our homes, our beloved ones,
These are the river
Not the shore

And someday,

Someday
Someday
We shall be with God-
Arrived