When Narrow is Wide

I bless you to enter

By the narrow gate

That leads to Life.

You need not

Be deceived

Or tantalized

By the wide gate—

The way that promises freedom

But then, imprisons.

May you, Child of God,

Flourish by the paradox

Of the narrow that makes broad—

The seemingly restrictive that sets free.

Jesus,

The one Gate,

The one Way,

The one Door,

So narrow…

So expansive.

He’s the gate that

Leads to life abundant.