Holy Creator of all, thoughts bounce around our brains
Questions
Perceptions
Grief seeking expression
Dearest Friend Jesus
Lead conversation
Flow Spirit of Life Wind
Guide
Discovery
Once cocooned as caterpillars
Help us become like butterflies
Seeking refreshment
Holy Midwife intercede
Sheer silence speaks
too deep for words
Open ears tuned to Father
So we listen like children feeling Mama's breath
Waiting for nourishment
Soak the parchment of our souls:
Uvalde
Ukraine
Russia
Putin
Palestine
Israel
Earth
Shootings project dysfunction into bullets
Spreading
Chilling
Fire crackers screaming
"Can't breathe!"
"Die!"
Tears of refugee children merge with Mama and Dada's tears screeching "Home?" "Where Home?"
War spreads like pollution effecting all marginalized persons the most because those entrusted with more tend to neglect taking enough time each day to ask
"What really matters?"
Even when we know what really matters
Do we act like what really matters
Really matters?
"Not us...
Not us, Lord?
Not us?
Lord, have mercy!"
Like dowsers seeking water sources
avoiding pangs of new birth travail
We feel
Disoriented
Dry
Defeated
Sleepwalking motions avoid unsettled souls who listen for sheer silence to
speak to the why's of suffering
Glued
Stuck
Wandering
Endless cycles watching media who usually neglect
Good News revealing encounters with
Holy
Holy
Holy
Making whole presence
Come saturating grace
Quench the parchment of all souls!!!
Come butterflies!
Honey bees!
Pollinate
Sheer stillness
Silence
Grant us the patience to endure storms stirring souls
Quieter of Storms
Lord Jesus
Gently pour soaking grace
Bathe tears of suffering with pools of agape...
Forming
Christ-like
Compassion
Empathy
Replacing
Fear
Judgment
With Courage to Be
Immersing all God made toes
Deep in water
A-Cross
Suspicious
Unexamined
Societal
Scripts
Causing us to hate and divide
Trying to Outshout holy silence
Birthing intimacy
For what we really crave are
Real friendships
with Holy Trinity
Who embodies
Lasting
Making whole love
Forming beloved community
Master of the Universe
Teach us to seek
Rain for the brain
Contemplative
Wisdom
Drop
Drop
Drop
The quenching of all souls.
Rest in the rainbow fulfilled promises of God's Never Ending Love!
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