Life Is God-SizedWe bring our idols;You are God.We come with our theologies;You are "God only wise."We keep trying to reduce life to sizewith our theologyour biologyour psychologywith all our ologies...andYou elude our logicYou burst our boxes.For that we praise Youand rejoicethat life is God-sizednever fully understooddrenched in mysteriesmore startling than all our systems.Humble us alllest we shrink Your world to what WE knowor can handle.Help us eachto let it be as unrulywildand grace-fullas it is.Loosen usto dance with joyand to wail with sorrowto laugh to cry to celebrate to grieve.Help usnot only to be caught by the exceptionalbut to be stunned by the ordinaryto marvel at what we call "common"--sparrowthe peoplesensetouchand all the small and daily blessings.My Godhow incredible that we are here (and not a million OTHER places)that we are togetherthat we are alivethat we are at all.Keep usyoung expectant unsure opennervous sensitiveand alive...at whatever ageamen.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Apropos a lot of things
Another poem from F. Ohler's collection Better Than Nice and Other Unconventional Prayers
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