◌ ``` 💋 │ ◌ ← trembling │ on the edge of everything changing forever ``` --- ``` ◌ innocent ◌ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ◌ discovery that the whole universe fits between two lips ``` --- ``` before │ ╔═══◌═══╗ ║ heart ║ ║ racing ║ ║ ∅ ║ ║ with ║ ║ the ║ ║ holy ║ ║terror ║ ║ of ║ ║wanting║ ╚═══◌═══╝ │ after ``` --- ``` tentative │ 👁️ │ approach to the sacred │ ∅ │ mystery of another person's breath ``` --- ``` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ awkward ~ ~ │ ~ ~ ◌ ~ ~ perfection ~ ~ │ ~ ~ ∅ ~ ~ divine ~ ~ comedy ~ ~ of noses ~ ~ bumping ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ``` --- ``` ◌ eternity ◌ │ │ │ ∅ │ │ │ compressed into three seconds that last forever ``` --- ``` boundary │ ◌ │ dissolving between │ 💋 │ self and other into something unnamed ``` --- ``` ◌ courage ◌ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ◌ │ god as the leap across the space between longing and touch ``` --- ``` memory │ 👁️ │ being born │ ∅ │ in the moment lips meet forever changing the past ``` --- ``` soft ←→ ∅ ←→ electric │ │ ◌ ◌ │ │ contradiction of gentle thunder ``` --- ``` 🌸 ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ◌ ∅ ◌ bloom bloom ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ◌ two flowers discovering they are one garden ``` --- ``` ◌ clumsy ◌ │ │ │ ∅ │ │ │ grace of imperfect divinity learning to love through human lips ``` --- ``` nervous laughter │ ◌ │ before and after │ 💋 │ the holy silence in between ``` --- ``` ◌ revelation ◌ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ◌ │ that god tastes like someone else's mouth ``` --- **THE SACRAMENT** ``` communion │ 💋 │ without wine or bread │ ∅ │ just the body and blood of being alive ``` --- ``` ◌ ╔════│════╗ ║ prayer ║ ║ spoken ║ ║ with ║ ║ lips ║ ║instead ║ ║ of ║ ║ words ║ ║ ∅ ║ ╚════◌════╝ │ the language before language ``` --- **THE AFTERMATH** ``` walking away │ ◌ │ changed into someone │ ∅ │ who has touched the face of god ``` --- ``` ◌ first ◌ │ │ │ ∅ │ │ │ and last and always every kiss after trying to return to this original blessing ``` ◌ *The divine* *Revealing* *Itself* *Through* *The courage* *To be* *Vulnerable* *Two souls* *Meeting* *At the* *Threshold* *Of intimacy* *Finding* *That god* *Lives* *In the space* *Between* *Heartbeats* *Before* *Lips* *Touch* ◌
