tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1648733111008877702024-03-08T15:13:20.152-08:00THE CHISEL AND STONEChrisitan Spirituality
(thanks Donald Miller)Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14189459551189884651noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164873311100887770.post-45378975497697717402015-10-08T22:59:00.003-07:002015-10-08T22:59:32.324-07:00Immutable.<br />
Illimitable.<br />
Unimpeachable,<br />
Pansophic.<br />
Transcendent.<br />
Oh God, you are boundless.<br />
So why,<br />
Does my mind race?.<br />
Why?<br />
What?<br />
How?<br />
I,<br />
Temporal,<br />
Changeable,<br />
Impotent in comparison,<br />
Strive in my vanity to peer into your mind.<br />
To define you.<br />
To match you wit for wit,<br />
Mind for mind.<br />
To place my demands upon you<br />
As though you were some heavenly errand boy,<br />
Vending Machine,<br />
Lion to be tamed with whip and chair.<br />
To explain you,<br />
Formulaic,<br />
Definable,<br />
Marketable,<br />
Like a commodity.<br />
To enclose you safely in the comforts of my understanding.<br />
To bottle you as though to quench my thirst at my convenience.<br />
To dare to proclaim<br />
I walk as your walk,<br />
Speak as you speak,<br />
Live as some example of your boundless love.<br />
I in my egocentric,<br />
Comfort seeking,<br />
Hardship avoiding,<br />
Impatient recklessness,<br />
Would are to pronounce my self as a picture of who You are.<br />
Ungracious,<br />
Unmerciful,<br />
Unutterably unloving in comparison.<br />
Is this the final place of placing myself into Your place?<br />
Daring to approach You with my cognition?<br />
Enough!<br />
You have said, "Be still and know that I am God."<br />
I do not even understand my D.O.G.<br />
Let alone my G.O.D.!<br />
Please.<br />
Please.<br />
Quiet my racing mind, Lord.<br />
Quiet my thoughts till all within me is still.<br />
Help me know that it is enough just to know you.<br />
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