I have taken for myself too many memories
So my solitude needs to struggle with my mind
Until I am forced into a corner by the darkness
And must leave the light of yesterday there behind
For the journey to a Kingdom that is beyond me
Wrapped in a vision or a faith that cannot be seen
And that is greater than any life I could imagine
Or any place my mind or my body may have been.
2012.08.21.1100 ©
I am brutal in my pride and anger,
Lust and greed and sin;
I am sad in whom I cannot be
When I seek for my soul’s life within;
I am sorry for how much I failed in the past
For the sinner I am and have been;
I am sick when I cannot slow down the procession
And am caught in the same daily spin.
2012.08.20.0900 ©
This life is beyond prayer,
Beyond ritual,
Beyond faith;
It is more thinking I am a sinner
Than a winner or a saint;
It is trying more than the yesterday
That I forget in the Kingdom today;
It is finding a joy in the moment,
In the wonder is it pray or is it play.
A new day is the recurring mantra;
It is the lesson;
It is the song;
It is the finding that in this life we live
We are loved and we belong
To a greater Will and Wisdom
That is surprise and mystery
Because I would choose to abide in the Father
So that His Spirit would abide in me.
2012.08.22.0700 ©
I am at the mercy of the weather,
Of the other and of my past;
I am at the mercy of my body
And the thoughts that pass so fast;
I am at the mercy of what’s good
That changes faces and won’t last;
I am at the mercy of the will of God
So wholly vast.
2012.07.09.0700 ©
Simple being
Wanting nothing
Grace of God sufficed;
Knowing that which is Eternal
From the empty passing life;
You and I, confusion’s sinners
When we find ourselves in strife;
What becomes too complex for the humble soul.
Senses calling endlessly
Disturbing inner peace;
Turning what is child of God
To what ourselves can please;
Fighting any thought of suffering,
Dying, sickness or disease;
We become the shadow
Which from the light the body stole.
Man too human
Lost at sea
Without an inner rudder
No longer speaks in Spirit flowing
But stammers, stalls and stutters.
2012.07.26.0900 ©