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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Lunacy of God

The unflagging lunacy of God
The unending steaminess of human beings.
The meeting between them that is always
A matter of life or death
And usually both
                                           Frederick Beuchner
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ah the lunacy of the Sacred

there we are
stinking in the hot dampness of
the seamy world

struggling
striving

needing the Sacred
needing hope
but finding ways
even in the name of the Sacred
to find only more darkness

politicians, placed in positions of trust
betray that trust,
and the people entrusted to their care

preachers, entrusted with the message of love and hope
share instead hate and despair
while justifying injustice
and supporting policies that leave ‘the least of these” homeless and hungry”

“people of faith”
accepted and forgiven
reject and judge

and yet the Sacred becomes present
again and again

and yet again

bringing love
seeking to make us people of love and compassion

how crazy is that!?

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