"Earlier" [Module #274] (Luke 19:29)

I wonder if You woke up in Your journey down the road,
Quite tired of the view of things, and weary of the load;
I wonder if You wondered ’bout how it all came to this;
I wonder if beneath Your peace, what else there did exist.

Lord, as we walk our daily trails as copied, followed, led,
I pray Your grace for us today, and for our daily bread;
Be with us in our walks ahead – as leaders of the pack,
That we, like You, might step on out, despite when courage lacks.

I think of soldiers in each war, who faced each day of doom –
Blind courage; pushing forth each day as they created room
For us to live in peace we have as we live out this day;
Help us now as we all go forth, and may we find some pay.

“Some pay”? Why yes – for that’s the point of my anxiety –
Back in the days of anxious hope when I went out to see
What I could find of parts we missed back then in fixing church –
We got it – but anxiety oft left me in the lurch.

But now, as we press on from here, the battle’s quite the same –
It’s play the cards, or play for cash – but playing just the same;
“Will you capitulate, My son, when this comes to the crunch?
Or will you, like Zacchaeus hear, “I’m at your place for lunch”?

Okay, O Lord, I’m hearing, “Stu what would you have me do?”
Like Watchmen Nee those days back when his men ran out of fuel,
And he went back to working in his brother’s factory –
A move I hunch brought ceiling down when regime changed so he –

Was seen to favor other ditch than Communists whose way
Of doing life and business was the one which now held sway;
Lord, as we now return to earth, albeit on that sheet
Of acetate called “Kingdom” – still its giants that we meet.

But now I see those giants as the demons of my past,
Who hide beneath my attitudes, await, sit back and laugh;
You know I cannot do this round that faces me today –
My active-willingness is here – please drive them all away.

Thanks Lord, for this, I truly am most grateful for Your aid;
As I press forward now released from bondage which they’ve made,
I ask You now, bring peace within, and wholeness under way,
That all might feel such peace today – “You whole?” “Why yes,” we’ll say.

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