“Scary Assurance”

Sometimes –
     When we hear Your word
          O Lord,

And in its hearing,
     Find our world
          Turned inside out –

And what we thought
     Would never be the day
     And then it would –
          But only
               At a
                    Surface
                         Point of view

And then,
     In moving forward
          Once again
               On to some other
                    Present path –

We find it
     Given back again,
          But wholly
               Changed –

For now the gift
     From You,
          O Lord,

Is not
     An artificial
          Construct
               Of the mind,

But rather –
     Bare necessity –
          For no one else
               Is ’round
                    To do the
                         Task –

And far from
     Glory base
          It’s now
               A challenge
                     Rising up –

And then
     In church,
          Unknown to me
               As I had
                    No
                         Heads up,

He opened up
     With those clear words –
          As theme
               For our next
                    Hour –

“God says to you –
     And you –
          And you –
               And you –

That your request –
     So base to you
          It’s life itself,

For which you
     Barely had the nerve
          To ask it all,

Yes – that request –
     Well – it’s
           Been granted.

Well, Lord,
     I’m in –
          I’m on a course
                Like Yours back when,

Which ended
     That sad day
          On Calvary –

You told me that
     Quite long ago
          But now I see
               Its start –

Quite inauspicious actually,
     And yet quite clear –

My role defined
     Within his Co.
          As now we to
               The future go –

With gifts reversed,
     And me, for real
          Not do but be
               The person
                    Whom you had in mind back start.

Lord,
     Grace I ask
          To walk this road,
               And do the task
                    Which lies before me
                         As you wish –
                               In you –
                                    And you in me.

Lord,
     Grace indeed,
          And thank You
              For this day
                   Of Word
                        And Confirmation.

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