We live in a world of false selves,

each with an identity, role in society, inherited beliefs,

and imagined security.

Underneath this world,

the disinherited are noticed but never included.

Our defenses are hard-hearted and spiritually thin.

But one day, security ends.

Age, loss, failure, sickness, or financial hardship reveal its lie.

We become the poor, disinherited,

broken, untouchable, and needy.

As God’s woundings crack our once-impenetrable defenses,

spirit rushes in,

grace appears,

and we wake

to an irrepressible love.