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!?