KEEP WALKING

KEEP WALKING

Every day I get closer to our Meeting.

I feel like I've been walking this path for a thousand years

towards You...

and yet I'm still not there.

So close, and yet so far still

But I keep walking,

despite the tears,

despite the wind,

despite the skinned knees and broken bones,

despite the bruises and scars that make this heart what it is today,

I keep walking...

toward You.

There's only one direction,

one direction:

towards You.

From You, to You.

I have nothing else.

Nothing.

That is my poverty.

I keep walking

because behind every sun's setting is a rising,

behind every storm is a Refuge,

behind every fall is a rise,

behind every tear is a cleansing of the eyes.

And in every sport you've ever been stabbed, is a healing,

and the creation of skin stronger than it was.

I keep walking

because wallahi I have nothing but Your mercy.

I have nothing but Your promise

Your words

Your promise 

that:

"O mankind, indeed you are laboring toward your Lord with [great] exertion and will meet it." (Qur'an, 84:6)

N / F : FROM "RECLAIM YOUR HEART", BY YASMIN MOGAHED.