For the Pastor and the One Beside

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Thank you for the public word, and for the private boundary. For doors opened in crisis, and doors wisely kept closed. Thank you to the one beside— not shadow, not assistant, but a whole life, whole calling, whole name before God. May service never require either of you to disappear.
50 words · 10 lines · Free Verse
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