"God has warmed us...displays fruitless hospitality...honors our failed commitments..." |
God has warmed us With food, clothing, and shelter, From His own doing Giving us interminable will And the blessing of our family and friends To help us seek and find these things. God grants us this will and these blessings, For He must remain invisible To the naked eye, Showing us His eternal love, mercy, And grace through the kind, thoughtful, Caring acts of ourselves and others. God displays fruitless hospitality Through our foundering grief and pain over lost loves And the incessant bickering and hurt feelings Gathered unproductively and carelessly From our close ties. But our forgiveness for these trials And sadness is a learned experience Which brings us closer to God Himself, For it is His mercy that allows us To live and breathe, and ultimately, To be happy and completely Holy and sanctified! God honors our failed commitments To achieving the goals of career, Education, and financial strength, By withholding these goals Through tortuous and perilous obstacles And our unclear vision of these paths. For only when God Himself creates A woman or man of enough strength And courageous effort to achieve These worthwhile goals, Can He see Himself fit to bestow The throne of career and money! |