Our calling
07.12.07 (7:00 pm) [edit] |  |
Our calling
We pray together not apart,
Before God we are one,
“When I was hungry, you fed me”.
Judging others, it is ourselves we show contempt towards,
Trapped in a world of mirrors we cannot escape.
Separation is not possible,
The web that binds us is eternal unbreakable.
Those we hate is where Christ is found,
The undeserving those we should help,
Giving love without recompense is our path,
Our calling,
What should be striven for,
Failure a spur to keep on the way.
All other loves are good,
Or not,
Yet they are part of who we are,
Often erecting barriers towards others,
Outsiders.
For the rich it is the poor,
The poor it is the rich, who are shown contempt.
Blacks on white,
White on blacks,
Male on female,
Female on male,
An endless heartbreaking list.
Plenty of hate to go around
The flip side of the same coin,
Love and hate.
Indifference is something different,
Probably worse.
We are bound by either hate or love,
Tightly bound by constraints,
One choking out life,
Spreading misery and hatred,
The other life giving,
Expansive,
Embracing all.
One is all to natural,
The other offered to all hearts open to the other,
It is in showing love and compassion
That the earth stops and watches,
Feeling the healing if only for a while
Before new wounds are open by the all too traveled path.
Christ fastened to the cross is each of our souls,
What is done to us,
Our own acts of self destructive actions,
Once called sin,
No matter the name the fruits the same.
So with Christ we are bound,
His blood heals our wounds,
For he forgave those who tortured and killed,
Yes even the one who betrayed,
Those also who ran away into mercies embrace.
I still have not learned,
My failures binding me ever deeper
To my brothers and sisters,
Yet more to the mercy and love of Christ.