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Poem: Space for Grace

Date:

February 20, 2025

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Poem: Space for Grace

Poem by Christi Ortiz | FāVS News

That first spark of God’s Presence
God’s love in your Heart
is what burns in your being now
But now it has consumed more of you

It seems we develop more and more capacity
to lay down in this bed of Grace
More of our being can release
and surrender and melt into God

More of us is permeated
and purified of wounds or lies
or whatever else covers over
our true nature in God

We are freed more and more
to be the embodied presence of love
we are more wholly and fully God’s
Holiness is giving space for Grace

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Christi Ortiz is a licensed marriage and family therapist by profession and a poet by passion. She enjoys trying to put to words to that which is wordless and give voice to the dynamic and wild spiritual journey called life. She lives in Spokane with her husband and two children, Emmanuel and Grace. She loves the outdoors and meditating in the early mornings which gives rise to her poetry.