Incredulous Word
“Incredulous! For all he does
Is walk around and talk all day!
I could go ’round and
Talk all day with friends of mine
And nothing much would
Happen in our world.“This Brian guy –
If he’d said that to me
I’d say, 'Okay, goodbye',
And dropped him like
The jerk he seemed to be.“That’s how I see it anyway –
Apart from issues ’bout his pay
And cost of projects,
Church, and such –“It’s not about the world I know:
Cash raised at benefit?
We could not do that
In a year
You know.“So, like,
How could this speak
Into my life?
Help me and mine
Get on with life?
Incredulous it is
Indeed –
Incredulous.”Her words poured out,
Surprising to my ears,
As she spoke on
About her world –
So clear and simple,
Yet frustration high
(though taken well
In stride,
Quite practically,
With
Changes
To her route).“For who would pay me
For what I most
Wish to be
And do?You know me, Stu –
How can you hold
Such vision out
Before my
Growing eyes?“A vision I can’t hope to reach
Though I should live
To be a thousand-
Thousand years
Of age –
Incredulous –
It seems.”And yet,
In worlds of fantasy
Where magic,
Goblins,
Dragons roam,
She spins fine tales
Beyond all
Incredulity
For fun –
Enjoyment of
A yet
Unseeing group.What is it?
What are the words
She spoke to me
So clearly?Startled me
They did –It took my breath away!
And was not
’Till the morning next
My vision cleared –
I realized
My role
In life –That’s all I’d ever done –
Just walk around
And talk with folks
All day!And there it was!
Caught in
That clear expression
Of surprised
Rejection of the fact –The Word –
The word
With all its
Stark simplicity,
Is all it took
For God to make
This splendid
Universe
Of ours –The word – the word
With all its
Spoken, written,
Spun out
Magic
Powers –The word –
With all its potent
Clear
Simplicity.The word –
Of wisdom,
First created,
Through which
All was later
Made,
So all the rest
Was in that
Wisdom
Cloaked with
Charm.The word –
Incarnate
Living here
Among our sinful lives,
Becoming flesh;
When dwelling here with us,
So full
Of grace
And truth.Yes – there it was
Her question –
Simple words
Expressing
Incredulity –And yet so true!
For who would guess
The power of our words
To clarify,
Give guidance,
Hold folks up,
When all around
Has faltered,
Fallen to the ground
In hopeless disarray!Yes, there it was,
Defining in its simple-ness,
And clarity of life –
No way!
There’s just no way
A word or two
Can make a universe!For we’re not God –
(If God indeed did that!)
There’s simply
Not a way
A word
Can make
Or change
A world
Like this –
Incredible
That is.And yet –
And yet she’d done just that –
For through the fed-back words
I heard from her,
A clarifying word
I had not heard
Through all the rest –A word –
Affirming all He’d said and done
Through me
Through all these years –And more –
Affirming all He has in mind,
As I push forward
In my life
And work,
Despite
What others
Think,
Or say,
Or do –I thank You, Lord,
For sharing what You think –
Your word
For me –Mixed in –
Entwined within,
And through
The words
You had
Her speak
To me –I thank you, Lord,
For clarifying
Through her simple words
Your thoughts –
Reminding me,
Through process,
Of the power
In all life
Of spoken
Word.Your multi-play –
Reminds me also
How this incident
Plays out
(Or can, at least)
Within her world –As she
Sees impact of her words
Within my
Life
And work.I smile –
I smile indeed
As you fulfill
Your word –
That words
From You
Like rain
Bring forth new growth –And don’t
Return to you
Until their task
Is done –For yet again
We see just that –
Embedded in
These simple words
And bearing in their
Form –A part of water
In that brook
Which flows by roots
Of trees beside
The river bank –She’s nourished too!
And as she
Goes ahead
And spins her merry tales
Of fantasy,
Delightful yarns,
For all the girls
And boys
I’ll never
Reach –She goes –
And ever knows
That once –
Just once, at least,
Your word
Flowed
Mingled with
Her words –
Unbeknownst to her,
And brought
Refreshing rain
To this –
The parched and
And barren
Soil
Of my soul.Thanks.
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