The Divine Narrative

No one ever knows what divine narrative the Sacred may be writing with the crooked lines of someone’s struggles, misdeeds, and omissions.

                                                          John O’Donohue, Eternal Echoes, p. 192

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never underestimate the creative

innovative power

of Sacred Presence

sometimes we look at ourselves

with all our failures,

our bad choices,

and brutish and hideous behavior

and we write our own ending to our story

it is not a happy ending!

it is at the very least, dark comedy

if not outright tragedy

Sometimes we look at others

and simply want to close the book

for the conclusion seems so clear

but the Sacred specializes in surprise endings!

and because we are Sacred Children

the narrative is always

in some way

divine

I do not know what the Sacred One with do with me

or you,

or that man waving the Trump banner,

or that woman with the Bernie button

I do not know what the Sacred will do with

that one who feels the only answer to any problem

is brute power

I do not know what will happen with that person

struggling with addiction

or that person who hears inner voices

that howl and curse

I only know they are Sacred children

Connected to One who is Love

And I believe that since God is a hopeless lover

Grace will abound

Grace will abound