Looking about ourselves
right now
we dare not believe
what God himself
wants us
dares us
begs us
to believe
which is that he is there.
And there.
And there.
And there.
And here.
Right now
always.
“It cannot be!” we say to ourselves
It cannot be.
We, after all, know better.
We, after all, know the ways
of this unforgiving world.
Photo: “All In,” by Catherine Shore
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I hang out here with the John Shore gang because I admire everyone’s openness to consider other views of God and because of the honest dialogs. This post is wonderful, and I look around the world and see Someone’s gorgeous creation … still, when I look around the world, I’m also so very disappointed … children are what get to me the most, we inflict so much pain upon them, and nature is – by design, it seems – so brutal to the innocent.
God seems like Elvis, and it appears Elvis has left building.
Thank you for this, John and Catherine
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Wonderful!
So beautiful, Cat. Thanks for sharing, John.
“Right now always” – simple words but so powerful … I want to carry these with me today, and tomorrow, and the next day…
Thank you John and Catherine (good people of the world)
Thank you John and Cat for the very refreshing sanity in an insane world.
Beautiful!
Just beautiful. Thank you, John and Cat.
I concur. How Divine the ineffable…
I improve a little every time I’m here. This time, I breathe a little more deeply. xoxo