reasoning
(a prayer)

O God
Oh
God
(invocating
supplicating)
how are you
in our lives
how do your angels
work in dialogue
between
two sets of wills

your will
so elastic
as to have us
mess it up through
discretion
or what seems perhaps
an accident
or random thing
from us

and yet your will
predominate
your cosmic will
and will for all your spirits
made
and always
from the beginning
ending
and beginning
and everything between

so how shall we have our days
our hours
in ourselves
not pawns
but active players
in some plan of yours
one plan
and all of us
somehow
as parts

yet what we do
must matter
from the inside
to the outside
even the outermost

and is it miracle
or an extraordinary
definition
of happenstance
or some other medium
in which
we move
and have our being

and our choices
matter
they are valued
they turn into
the ultimate reality
and for our judgment
into paradise

how does that work
what stretches
most
within your will
that becomes a point of doctrine
for our lives
a code
for our discretion

well
what we know
is what we know
that our choices
make a difference
in a universe
of shared presence
manifested

so you choose
so I choose
so we chose
not in a vacuum
but some substance
our of
everything that’s real

the real
that is material
divine
individual
and overarching
if not overlording

oh
Lord
our Lord
how majestic is
your name in all the Earth
maybe an odd affirmation
(time to time)
when you
have no name
being I am

we have names
we have bodies
we have spirits
we have choices
and all of it
has value

part of your way
that goes in every
direction
where solidity
and spirituality
have room
for a plan
we don’t know part of
but in whom we are
the stake

we decide
we could always
learn the rules
(they are in many sources
universally)
then go so far as
to obey

c l couch


Psalm 8:9

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