Call of the wild
One of the beautiful things about being a Christian is that, God having amazingly made reconciliation with us through Jesus, we find ourselves loved and forgiven. This marks the beginning of a long journey of reconciliation: because the healing of our relationship with God has taken place at a very deep and still being-worked-through level, our relationships with the world, with others and with ourselves is now also open to receiving God's healing. Even the parts of our being of which we have no conscious awareness are open to the vast mindfulness of the One in whom we live and move and have our being. So here is an attempt to imagine an encounter with my inner stranger, deep in the jungle of the subconscious... Call of the wild So if the wild is out there, Who is this yelling in here? Are you an anthropoid ancestor, Born to rampage round The forest of my mind? Or did you retreat deep into the darkness from The closed faces and cutting words? Was it a horror beyond hideous That hou...