So What’s This All about?

What is this, Lord, what’s going on?
Such selfishness – I look around;
Do I enable this as well?
And foster such a sniveling hell –

In every one? I had not seen
Extent of it – how it has been
A way of life here – all around –
Extensive way of life, I’ve found.

So how should I respond to this?
Reduce my speed so I don’t hit
The deer who saunter ’cross the road
Like White Bear days – drop stressor’s load?

Fifth business – that’s the role I’ve played;
The background’s where for years I’ve stayed;
As crash-test dummy’s how I learn –
I fade into the background – earn –

My pittance when it comes to cash –
Reluctant to fair-wages ask,
For when I chug along for free,
I find folks do confide in me –

But then again they silent are
Where action is – I find by far
The fastest way to see the light
Is push – as for their cash they’ll fight.

Lord, what I hear, “Sun Tzu’s the way –
Not him as such – but how I say
It in My “Judaism lite
For export to your culture – light –

“And salt, and leaven, hear My words;
Apply them to your culture – heard
By others, yes, in years gone by,
Third culture’s yours – so this is why –

I Say – mind your own business, son;
Heed what I say, that when you’re done
They’ll have a model – copy you,
As you in Me learn what to do”.

Lord, how, in this economy,
Can we live body-life? Indeed,
I see it’s helpful, but it takes
Six other gifts to body make.

“Start out as one – as unity
Of body-life, and let that be
The way you move ahead – with care,
Acceptance of the gifts they bear.”

Whew! How could that way work for us?
That allergy creates a fuss
Between us all – “But that’s the point,
Engage in Me – let Me anoint –

“Your enterprise – or else go ’round
And work wherever work is found –
Exchange as one with others’ gifts,
And enter each engaging rift.

So others hold each enterprise
Themselves, and let successes rise,
And failures fall – for what the heck,
It matters not – but don’t forget –

“Discern the body in your life
With other folks – no way is right,
As if there is some recipe –
It’s attitude they need to see.

“Too many cooks will spoil the stew,
So let them run their business – choose
How they best enter, interface
With others of the human race.

Decide how you will choose to live
Your life, and to your children give
The best example of them all –
Life lived in Me despite the fall.

“Just don’t enable twisted ways
Of other lives – although it pays
In short-term – it’s sad way to end
As end it will – so best you tend –

“The flock that’s given to your hand;
Ignore the rest – just under-stand
The beaten lying by the road
You’re on – and lighten up that load.”

Thanks Lord, for this – okay I’ll try;
Adjust my ways; accept what lies
Here, close at hand, grace us indeed
To interchange – fill each one’s need.

Thanks Lord for this.

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