Well here we are in this wide world - again.
It’s hard the way it’s put together to
get out of being blessed, that’s even when
we set ourselves to bless just like you do!
Not for some kind of pay-back thing to us,
for benefit we’ll gain, or strength accrued,
or power to enforce, or make a fuss
about our choices: “What’s good?” and “What’s rude?”
You seem to think in ecosystem ways:
There’s hardly any good that won’t spill out
and touch all other parts. Your life displays
such open-handed, generous, devout,
determined, and too beneficial stuff,
why even all our tears and suffering -
recorded, and then planted aren’t enough
to cover over, cover up, the bling
that you intend for us to wear for good.
His nail-prints and his side remain somehow
as openings that let love, as it would
flow more between our lives, so take a bow
and know that ev’ry real attempt to live
responsive love out, such that more is seen;
is multiplied by him who would fore-give
his gracious view to storeys in between
so as in heaven, so ’twill be on Earth.
And we, his children, who are made “like him”,
get to fill full the reason for our birth,
and will shine with his light - be not so dim!
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