GOOD THINGS, GOD’S THING
It started at breakfast with coffee
followed by lunch at the club
then an evening martini.
Interspersed were
texting, tweeting and Skype.
With a little help I got through the day.
And God saw that her creation was good.
My friends at the abbey
take a monks’ sort of pride,
like John with his locusts and honey,
at how little they need
to live life
inside.
The warrior’s horse cannot save.
Ps. 33 (32)
Creation was good . . .
for all, . . . , for all time.
Do I trust my sense of what would be good
for just me, . . . , right now?
Unless the Lord builds the house, we labor in
vain.
Ps. 127 (126)
Parts of my life distract me;
others draw me closer to God
and to others.
The God-in-me may be needed to deal, . . . ,
She has not been called out for awhile.
Can I convince her I am serious about seeking
Her “there”
and the least obstructed distance
from here?
DRK, 2/9/13
6/6/15
I'd love to hear you thoughts on this poem Dad. I want to know the meaning on all levels. I love the use of the psalms in your poems...
ReplyDeleteA friend asked me for a Lenten poem, something that might be used for discussion in church. That is where this came from I have always been interested in how we relate to our things, the human ecologist in me, I guess. As a Christian I have been drawn to the tension between what is good about God's creation (and God saw that it was good) and how it can become a distraction for us. My connections with the monks at St. John's Abbey (MN) makes me leery of using a lot of stuff as a crutch to get through life. As the psalms in this poem suggest, relying on our stuff is futile. Ultimately, if our lives are not in sync with God's guidelines about love, the long term prognosis is not good (a medical metaphor). The things of this (our) world can help us live lives we are proud of but they can also obstruct the same. What is your feeling about all of this? One could generalize "things" to our own personality traits and to other people.
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