Category: Religion

  • conversing with god on love

    God: “Love is patient.”
    Me: “Check.”
    God: “Love is kind.”
    Me:“Check.”
    God: “It does not envy.”
    Me: “Check.”
    God: “It does not boast.”
    Me: “Check.”
    God: “It is not proud.”
    Me: “Check.”
    God: “It is not rude.”
    Me: “Check.  So far, so good.”
    God: “It is not self-seeking.”
    Me: “Check.”
    God: “It is not easily angered.”
    Me: “Check.”
    God: “It keeps no record of wrongs.”
    Me: “check…hold on, no record of wrongs?  None?  You mean I can’t bring up that time when my wife did….  No record of wrongs?  Let's...let’s start again.”
    God: “Love is patient”
    Me: “Well…most of the time.”
    God: “Love is kind”
    Me: “Yeah, pretty kind.”
    God: “It does not envy.”
    Me: “Hmmm….”
    God: “It does not boast.”
    Me: “Gulp.”
    God: “It is not proud.”
    Me: “Ouch.”
    God: “It is not rude.”
    Me: “OK, I give up – this is way too hard.”
    God: “Just let it go.”
    Me: “But it’s too hard.”
    God: “Let it go.”
    Me: “I’ll try harder, I really will.”
    God: “Listen.”
    Me: “I will.”
    God: “No, listen…let it go.”
    Me: “I will.”
    God: “No, listen.  Let it go.”
    Me: “I am.”
    God: “Let it go.”
    Me: “Help me.”
    God: “You keep on seeing, but don’t see.”
    Me: “Seeing what?”
    God: “You keep on hearing, but don’t hear.”
    Me: “Hearing what?”
    God: “It’s not about you – it’s about Me.  This is My love, dear one, not yours.”
    Me: “Oh, God.”
    God: “One more time through.”
    God: “Love is patient.”
    Me: “Always so patient.”
    God: “Love is kind.”
    Me: ”Undeservedly kind.”
    God: “It does not envy.”
    Me: “I have nothing to give.”
    God: “It does not boast.”
    Me: “Careful with my fragile ego.”
    God: “It is not proud.”
    Me: “Compassionate with my state of nothingness.”
    God: “It is not rude”
    Me: “Gentle beyond belief.”
    God: “It is not self-seeking.”
    Me: “All things work together for good.”
    God: “It is not easily angered.”
    Me: “Though I am easily sidetracked.”
    God: “It keeps no record of wrongs.”
    Me: “For Your sacrifice has covered them all.”
    God: “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth." 
    Me: “And truth brings trust.”
    God: “It always protects.”
    Me: “Though I stray.”
    God: “Always trusts.”
    Me: “Though I often fail.”
    God: “Always hopes.”
    Me: “Though I often doubt.”
    God: “Always perseveres.”
    Me: “Though I often give up.”
    God: “Love never fails.” 
    Me: “Never fails, ever.”
    Me: “Thank you God.”
    God: “I love you.”
  • jesus in the front yard

    A man’s house is huge
    As is his truck
    His job is steady
    As are his paychecks
    His equity is growing
    As is his waistline
    
    His life reeks of success.
    A smell others loathe
    
    He’s over housed
    Over booked
    Over taught
    Over read
    Over sold
    And almost dead
    To what is really going on
    And that which really matters
    
    It’s not one more hundred in his wallet
    Given hastily as the plate passes.
    It’s not one more check mailed away
    To some foreign country he won’t visit
    Much less pronounce
    Or touch
    Or really affect
    
    Jesus was in the man’s front yard this morning
    And the man asked Jesus why he let people suffer
    Jesus looked at his house
    At his truck
    At his wallet
    At his waistline
    Smiled a sad smile
    And walked away