we are left

Year A - Epiphany 3 or Guiding Gift³

January 26, 2014

     we are left

there is no covenant

made eternal in the heavens

that shapes our present or

revisions our past

only a steadfast love

through ages and stages

of current decisions

wrestled in time

season and locus

to have it else

requires a creedal response

imposed past its prime

a procrustean bed

to shape all comers

into what they are not now

nor ever will be

never denying a stoop of age

a straightened spine

to love what is

without selecting

parts from the past

hopes for a future

conversing consulting

conferencing contending

delving deep within

widening engagements

to love what is

before a conception

through gestation

facing a stillbirth

just because or because

in crowning or casket

now and ever now again

unexplainably hurtful

unexpectedly kind

we see through mercy

a mercy premeditated

bone deep and tender skinned

unlimited by experience

and finding such over and over

there is and is and is not

a limit by our worst

a possibility of our best

unconstrained by death

uncelebrated by resurrection

we covenant

to not covenant away

steadfast love

to engage to grow

past our past

beyond our future

a still small voice

gracious in welcome

gentle in parting

and so

ipso facto

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we dare soften our gaze

both the inward and outward

to see again what we forgot before

our past brought us here but can't carry forward

our intentions await a decisional power of will and way

we are left with nothing to call upon than to live present love