We thought him strange
when he returned
after all those days
in the desert alone.
His hair was grown,
his face unshaven,
thin and gaunt
and reddened by the sun
but every one of us
knew that he was changed
and that something about him
shone with a kind of light
and that he had a glow,
peculiar and unknown.
We tried to focus
and adjust our sight
and all of us questioned
what we really saw
But the clarity of his eyes
was what captivated
and surprised us most.
He seemed to be able
to see into our very souls
But we could not know
that while he was gone,
he battled every demon
and made himself whole.
And that the man who left,
alone, forty days ago,
returned to us now as God.
Some clung to him,
some wanted to worship
and others ran away.
But to those brave
enough to stay,
he only said, follow me.
And few understood
and some thought it odd
when he asked that
we spend forty days
in the desert alone
to find that we too are God.
Author: Michele Collier
Editor: Emma Ruffin
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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