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Between A Rock And A Hard Place


Between A Rock

And A Hard Place

Between a rock and a hard place;
that’s what it’s called.
When you don’t know if you should
gee or haw
fight or flee.
So you freeze.
A rock and a hard place.
Indecision.

Stuckness.

Hopeless.

Enmired.

How to escape?

I don’t know.

Maybe I need to live
in this in-between time.

Waiting, listening, hoping,
and guidance may appear,
showing a way to a new place.

Meanwhile, may I find a way to
blossom where I’m planted.

This Mystic Musing
Comes to You From Catherine

About Catherine Coates

Catherine Coates is the author of the books, Longing for Intimacy: Glimmers of Hope, and Like as a Hart: Poems to Quench Longing. She has also published a set of inspirational cards, Musings on Grace.

Her next book will be considerations of Jewish/Christian theological tenets which arose in her after spending time in a Christian cult.

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