Unclothed before your candid gaze I stand;
Your eyes partake, yet settle on my face
As if you see a place, a verdant land
Unplagued by time, exuding ageless grace.
Beneath that longing look I yearn to place
My fleece upon the bed, believing that
The soul, supine after its fall from grace,
Is ravished yet by love once more begat!
Do you see, inside my eyes, a star-song
Of established lore, long-ancient telling
Of a page-less story, authored to belong
To us – Love’s sempiternal will aligning?
Yes, in your eyes I see my soul addressed:
“You’re spotless, Bride, embrace your nakedness.”
Featured image is courtesy of Lancia E. Smith and used with her kind permission for Cultivating.
A founding member of The Cultivating Project, Christina has been fascinated by beauty her whole life. Color, texture, pattern, fragrance, melody, light – all of the boundless ways in which creation shines – ignites her imagination, compelling her to create. Even as a wee sprite, Christina was dedicated to wordsmithing and sketching her way through its marvels in an attempt to capture, at least partially, the imprint of the Creator within it. But writing and drawing are not her only creative endeavors; several years ago she took on the laborious (but rewarding) task of nurturing a garden in the dismal soils of the Rocky Mountain foothills, and has eagerly employed her spade (alongside her pen) as a tool to cultivate and curate the beauty around her.
She has two little gardeners-in-training who embody all these marvels and more in their merry little faces. She and her husband Brian are the founders of the Anselm Society based in Colorado Springs, whose mission and calling is a renaissance of the Christian Imagination. She serves as the Director of the Anselm Society Arts Guild and her creative work can be found at LiveBeautiful on Substack and on Instagram.
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