What if

What if
have you ever played this game?
The game of imagining
what life would be like
under a different set of circumstances.

The game starts
with some essential
recognition of the
difference between your own
life and some one else's.

A diagnosis...
An uncurable condition..
Treatment to provide comfort
but never a hope of reversal of the condition.

What if I were to learn that I was soon
to become a soul
trapped within a body
with no way to communicate?

Could I continue on living a life of  faithfulness?

Dependent.

Completely dependent

Unable to walk
incapable of talking
yet fully conscious of
all that surrounds me.

Never again to pick up a book in my own hands.

Lord,
Thank you for bodily life
and your presence to
comfort, challenge and inspire.