drip drip

Going to change the wording a bit from Barbara Brown Taylor’s original

The import is the same, I just changed some adjectives and the tense.

This feels very real right now!!!

[We] want a title wave of a Messiah – someone who would be impossible to miss, who would make a clean sweep of things, who would witness to the omnipotent righteousness of God.  What [we] get instead is a steady drop of mercy from a man named Jesus….  Sometimes [we] would give anything for one fireball from heaven, for one blast of raw power from a tidal wave God who would sweep [our] doubts away forever.  But this is not what [we] have.  What [we] have is a steady drop of mercy from the followers of a man named Jesus who is still playing doctor to a lot of marginal people in this world.”

                                                              Barbara Brown Taylor, Heaven, pp. 12,13

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The world today

Hurts me

Scares me

Angers me

What I see seems so evil, so dark

So cruel, so hateful

And frankly I want God to set it all straight

Now

Like right  now

Boom!

I want that tidal wave

That blast of raw power

But that is not how God works

At all

At all

Jesus is proof positive

The one who walked in the dust

And ate with sinners

And accepted the riff raff

And healed the marginal

Jesus who was God’s grace

Incarnate

Instead I get as steady drip of mercy

Instead I get divine patience

And forgiveness

And faltering fresh starts

And relapses

And more fresh starts

And love

And I touched by that steady drip of mercy

And I am called to be a part of that steady drip

As I listen

As I hurt for others

As I notice the pain

As I seek to respond

As I forgive

And offer fresh starts

And love

And love

And love some more

I think the world needs a raw blast of power

Instead God offers me

And you

Drip

Drip