Maintaining Inspiration

I attened a "Walk to Emmaus" last weekend. I've been on several of these events and it's easy to ignore the newness each time and get in a rut. I penned this poem at the beginning as a prayer to God to help me be as open as I was the first time I attended. God answered the prayer.

Maintaining Inspiration
By Larry R. Linville

I’ve done this thing so many times.
The first was so inspiring.
Each time increases the distance
and can become so tiring.

I can’t create inspiration.
It’s given me as a gift
but if it is not nurtured
it can lose it’s upward lift.

Everything that is of value
must be used or it goes away.
So we must remember often
and invest time when we pray.

I start this weekend once again
aware that it can really make
a new impression on my heart
and my apathy it will shake.

Open now this vessel, Lord,
and excite my soul again.
They’ve rung the opening bell
and I’m ready to begin.