I love you. I see now
how God is doing it all anyway
and the miracle will happen,
will unfold in a million voices
even if it is not Plan A.
And perhaps I should thank you
because in some ways it has freed me
that you saw us as neither 
plan A through Z.

I am learning today
to be at peace with being
outside the circle and in the eye
of unknowing, winds whipping about,
making some new way and
standing in the center of grace
that perhaps I would not 
have experienced so fully
if not for your non choice.

Even so, as I have said before
you have been with me and I with you
and that will not change. This truth will 
survive this life's strange storm 
and all the ages of separation.
It is all coming full circle. I hear
your words and the ones we spoke
once upon a time 
to one another

echoed
everywhere
eternally