Dear All of Us,
A sweetheart sours.
The job goes south.
A Mix Master Mid-Life.
Friendship flame out
Values fog and fail.
"It's terminal."
Trust betrayed.
Finances fold.
Deep Dark Soul Night.
In short, a short out,
Power Outage
They're real and
they're really horrid!
The first followers of Jesus
suffered a massive
power outage.
Completely in the dark.
Jesus was gone.
An era had ended.
Direction, security,
clarity tanked.
Stalled still.
The best they could do
they did do.
Hiding out together,
they trusted Jesus' promise of
The Spirit
not having a clue as to
what that meant
or would be like.
They stuck together,
they prayed together.
Out of the clear blue
into their pitch black
Windswept Rush
Flamed Intensity
Spirit Surge
Jolted Fear Freed
Tongues Spirit Speak
Enlightened
To the streets
Power Surge
Pentecost
These days are
Dark Nights
Pitched Black
Global Power Outages.
A Cold War threatening.
Hot Wars boiling over, scalding.
Despot dictators in the wings
ready to rule us to ruin.
Rights wronged.
Road Rages crashing across
lanes of shared life and civility.
Billionaire baby boys at the
controls of communication.
Societal prostitutes
perverting patriotism.
A few mad moods and motions
from nuclear devastation.
Spirit striped churches.
Truth "falsed".
Endowment of earth and air
squandered.
Gun Downs abound.
For all our efforts
powerless.
Fear filled people.
In our darkness
In our stuck still,
time to trust
the promise of
The Spirit
whatever that will be like
and will mean in our time.
Time
to stick together,
to wait,
to trust,
to pray together.
Not sort of
Not sometimes.
Actually, really,
now, fully.
Politics, planning,
programs
not powerful enough.
Sticking together
We Pray:
Oh God,
We ask your
Windswept Rush
Flamed Intensity
Spirit Surge
Sparking Spirit
Jolt us anew.
As you will,
We will.
Sparking Spirit
Pentecost Us.
Amen
Trusting and waiting
and praying with
all of us,
John Frank
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There will be the inclination,
actually the temptation,
to blow off the above
as not practical enough,
not do-able, too spacey,
"too spiritual"
We cave at our peril.
The first followers of Jesus
knew they were stuck,
lost, powerless.
Until we admit
that's how we are,
we have no way forward -
we just compound darkness.
In their fear those
first followers of Jesus
took him at his word
and trusted for
they knew not what
the promised Spirit was
or would do.
And look what
came upon them
and did through them.
They stuck together,
trusted and prayed.
Now Us.
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(and it sure is this week!!)
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Again, may we trust,
find some others with whom
to stick and to pray with
as we wait for how
The Spirit will be
and do with us.
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