God Of Our Under-standing
Is God with us here present-ly?
Or just when we act pleasant-ly?
A God of good behavior He?
(Or delicate-ly goddess she?)Some think of God that way (some do
Not think of Him), my point of view
Is different in some ways I guess –
“God of my understanding” – yes –That’s more how I describe my God;
To some I guess that sounds quite odd,
“For then He’d change addressing each
Of us – so that I’d never teach”.But that is not my meaning, man;
It’s more, what aspects thinking can
Engage – one nibble at the whole;
One fruit within a larger bowl.For as I’ve grown to understand
A broader life, this life of man
And woman here upon this earth,
God’s grown with me in size and worth.So has my world – no longer flat;
The stars above – in space so vast;
My wife of forty-some-odd years
I thought I knew so well, but fear –I never will her wholeness grasp
In years I’ve got before at last
Our ways divide in death, and she
Will journey on alone like me.God of my understanding now
Is same, yet different God somehow;
Like people whom we get to know
Grow up in life – above, below.Is God just God within our minds?
Dreamed up when others are unkind?
Or evil sweeps across the plain?
Temptation drives the best insane?Is God with us? That’s what I ask,
Will ask again, as in the past;
Christ on the cross watched friends all flee,
Asked, “Why hast thou forsaken me?”There’s times my cell-phone will not work,
The signal’s lost someplace I’ve lurked;
The moon got in the way in space
While orbiting around that place.As little child I thought of mom
As present-ly when she would come;
So hide-and-peak were fun to play,
As long as she’d not leave all day.So too with Father-in-the-sky –
When He is here, no question why,
Or who, or when, or what, or where,
Because in Him I sense His care.But times of peak-a-boo, or when
He’s hid from me – time and again,
Are hard for me – I sense for you –
Then come to see, “My God just grew”.navigation