Epiphany

According to dictionary.com,  this is a noun having four meanings:
1. (Initial capital letter) a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
2. an appearance or manifestation, especially of a deity.
3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence  or experience.
4. a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.

I had something similar to numbers 3 and 4 back in March 1986 and am including it today as this is Epiphany 2015.

Epiphany

repetitive reflexes relax responsible.
there is something to be said,
but who am I to say it?
simpler to self surround
with written sound.
and on the Thursday last,
sitting at a blonde round table
which was thoroughly engraved
with collegiate graffiti,
sitting
annotating THE DIVINE IMPERATIVE,
merely being
there
three months prior to
the fifteenth anniversary of my death
in Minneapolis' General Hospital,
again the question,
why do I live again?
but
this time, and from this time,
answered: because it is His good pleasure.

After all these years, the same comforting truth is that God spared my life in June 1971 not because I was particularly worthy of that, but because it pleased Him, and I have tried to live in light of that light.