Walk With Me

I dreamed walking up a hill with an empty bucket to fill a lake on my right stood still I climbed higher to see what the sparkling on the summit might be. By a lake limpid and clean a man all in white stood still eager I approached to draw that liquid light from the sea. The man all in white said “No, your bucket is too dirty to draw go down to the lake to clean your bucket before you can fill.” The light on the mountain grew dim thunder shook the hill frozen by fear I stood still till the man in white said to me. “Ask my child, if you will downhill will I accompany thee.” “You know everything, but at Thy will I will ask it of Thee”. Walking alone downhill, as He vanished taking my fear a choir of angels heard I sing in melody unveiling to me the meaning of the bucket to clean: Cleanse me o Lord Make me worthy to draw The water of salvation From the fountain of life My God. First Place Winner: Brian Strand-All Yours-1/26/21