what is God feeling?
have we ever asked that?
we tell him that it is not fair. but what do we let him tell us?
maybe we go through frustration
to find out what he's been through.
maybe a prostitute helps a prophet
understand
more deeply his beloved God.
watching, again, and a g a i n
his wife
leave him.
turn
from him.
has God not experienced that?
a wife
badgers her husband,
the american classic,
to come to church.
he
refuses.
he knows best, and knows his truth.
wife sees the coldness,
and cries.
has God not experienced that?
what is he teaching us?
to be more introspective,
to broaden our world view;
to love people a little more,
to back off once in awhile;
to love with timidity,
to love whole heatedly;
to understand other's belief,
to know he is the one true God;
are we learning?
perhaps
Marriage
is not meant to make us happy,
but
to make us holy.
perhaps,
Our Other Half
is meant to test us,
and
make us Whole.
perhaps,
Loving You
is not
what all this is about,
but
makes it easier;
makes it harder;
makes it worth it.
the one who can accept singleness ought,
for the man who marries will have many troubles.
our trouble?
two trying to be one.
is God not
trying
to be one with us?
flesh of my
flesh,
bone of my
bone!
Eve in the Image of Adam.
Life in the Image of Man.
Man in the Image of God
and yet we try to live Life without God.
what are you God?
you are not humus,
not wrought from clay.
you are not bound to ground.
how then, shall we call you,
for man was called of what he was made.
Yahweh.
almighty, strength, salvation, liberation.
this is how you are called.
oh merciful,
what do you cry out?
may we seek
to understand,
not to be
understood.
