05-27-2016, 09:37 AM
Struggling with Conversion
"... it's a mistake to think that God is in nature,
or in our hearts, or in inanimate things. God
is exulted, and the world is sinful, and we are
of the world."
— a television preacher
Some days I almost do it, turn my Heart
over to the One, to the Son,
so lonely on this Earth I pass my time,
so little on this Earth in which to place
my incapacitated faith –
not in men, though; no, not in them.
Yes, today, again, I almost did it,
although I knew it must be Wrong
to think of God as separate from
a flower, a tree, a song – or too High
to share in painful things, like this hour;
yes, God must be in everything –
Not only in the Son, or in his church,
or in his father's book of fears –
or in Death's sickle come to claim us –
but in our hearts and tears; in this old
broken chair losing stuffing to the floor,
like my life – in that also there is God,
If God be at all.
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I've made a few changes since first posting the poem. You can see the original version in Kolemath's post below.
"... it's a mistake to think that God is in nature,
or in our hearts, or in inanimate things. God
is exulted, and the world is sinful, and we are
of the world."
— a television preacher
Some days I almost do it, turn my Heart
over to the One, to the Son,
so lonely on this Earth I pass my time,
so little on this Earth in which to place
my incapacitated faith –
not in men, though; no, not in them.
Yes, today, again, I almost did it,
although I knew it must be Wrong
to think of God as separate from
a flower, a tree, a song – or too High
to share in painful things, like this hour;
yes, God must be in everything –
Not only in the Son, or in his church,
or in his father's book of fears –
or in Death's sickle come to claim us –
but in our hearts and tears; in this old
broken chair losing stuffing to the floor,
like my life – in that also there is God,
If God be at all.
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I've made a few changes since first posting the poem. You can see the original version in Kolemath's post below.