Sophia's Playfulness

SOPHIA’S PLAYFULNESS

A heart awakened
in-love, is
the best season of all.

The longing to play
is always present:
to hide and delight
in being “found.”

Is this the way
of Wisdom among us,
who loves to hide
from Herself
and delights in
being found?

She hides
in the human heart,
You, I and everyone,
in nature and stars
and in the spaces
between people.

She hides so well
that she forgets where
and how She hides.

Til we, you and I,
discover, in loving,
the wisdom hiding
in our hearts.

She doesn’t want
to be found too soon
as that would end the
game and spoil
the fun
–even for Her.

So She waits, inside
our hearts, hiding
for the gaiety
and wondrous
surprise of
being found already
here.

Where we are
so
unlikely
to look...

a poem for my 20 month old grandson
by Paschal Baute, 2002
reference: “Jesus, Wisdom, and the World”
an article by Elizabeth A. Johnson.