love-making You

i kneel before You in peace

bebside You in twists and turns

in angst and all manner of gyrations

on bared-knees praising

kissing the floor as a love pact

with the sole dream of love-making 

You in eternity

a soul-dance of vision-spirits prodding

gliding through the flotsam and garbage

with assured conviction

that darkness is a doorway

that light speeds through

an ark-tunnel with the strength of silence

and the force of patience

where Adam plays in the solitude of Eden

You walk there accompanying dust

molding clay as the one assurance

that those waiting are heard

Your knees folded in prayer

*The Kingdom is spread, not through fighting but feeding, by bringing in, not by chasing out.  The early Church eucharist is the symbol Jesus gives as the sign of expansion, of expanding the Kingdom of God.  Love and forgive all, regardless, because God Is Love, always.

*Reflections of Frederick Buechner:

  -This other war is the war not to conquer but the war to become whole and at peace inside our skins.  It is a war not of conquest now but of liberation because the object of this other war is to liberate the dimension of selfhood which has somehow become lost, that dimension of selfhood that involves the capacity to forgive and to will the good not only of the self but of all other selves.  This is the goal that we are really after and that God is really after.  This is the goal that power, success, and security are only forlorn substitutes for.  This is the victory that not all our human armory of self-confidence and wisdom and personality can win for us - not simply to be treated as human but to become at last truly human.

  -Call it what you will, the evil in this world is greater than the sum of all human evil, which is great enough, just as the evil in ourselves as individuals is greater than the evil that we choose, and that is great enough too.   This is the darkness we need to be liberated from in order to become human.  This is what the great war of liberation is all about.  "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"  This is the cry at the heart of every man and at the heart of the world.