Saturday, June 18, 2016

Our only hope

Our only hope                                                                                          

Everyone is taking sides,
yet everyone is on the same side:  

it’s our vision versus God’s. 
Should we not give our tongues

to Him to quell, flesh to subdue,
our thunderous hearts to becalm

amidst this impossible rebellion?
Not in piety and passivity

but as a clear and dutiful course of action,
out of our compassion, such as it is,

out of our ignorance and impairment.
Out of a tenuous devotion to mercurial truth,

to set out along the narrow way, His way,
as best it might be determined, holding out faithfully

for the one great hope – our only hope –
the truth from God’s perspective, God’s big picture.

O child, keep your opinions to yourself.
Only silence should come from a grave.


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