The Bridge

Mercy: the bridge that connects God and man, opening our hearts to the hope of being loved forever despite our sinfulness.

-Pope Francis

The first step,  that very first step

So hard but filled with such emotion

Our feelings propel us to act

They propel us to move

So we step

We walk

 “It’s better to feel pain than nothing at all.  The opposite of love is indifference.”

-The Lumineers, “Stubborn Love”

Yet, the more that we walk

Our feelings fail us

They die

We are exposed

Our inner most identities cry out

Our daily activities no longer hide our desires

We are left with simply ourselves

We are on the journey

Our anxiety builds

So we look left, we look right

We look for anything to save us

We even look behind us

But our past can’t help us now

We are on the journey

“Just when I think I’ve reached the center of my heart, I inevitably discover inside myself whole worlds and galaxies that terrify me.”

-Audrey Assad

Our bodies ache

Our thoughts run

But our hearts desire to move on

For they know

The worst thing that we can do

Is to not walk at all.

“The worst prison would be a closed heart”

-St. John Paul II

Pictures were taken at the suspension bridge in Leissigen, Switzerland overlooking Lake Thun.