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sun day

I’m supposed to write of God
today
it being Sunday
and I told myself

directly about spiritual things
on
Sunday
being the day
you know
for that

then what happens tomorrow
when
it’s Monday and the untrending grudge
(or is it grunge)
returns
with six more days
‘til another break
for heaven or
at least for
heavenly consideration

well
today I think on God
because by experience it’s obvious
and I’ll even think on church
though
that bond
over time as well as exploitation
has become more and more tenuous

and what of God
whom we don’t know
or even
intimacy with Christ
which hardly seems appropriate
to think
Christ is our pal

with ironically the Spirit
the closes part
of God
we know even less
which might speak to knowing ourselves

and yet
we have the caveat
not
to dwell on self against all other
preoccupations
and yet
two sides of the equation
to love neighbor
and self

preceded by the command
not
nice suggestion
that we love God first

which sounds like law
and is
though we know
well the only kind of law we get
on Earth
that sometimes is filtered
through mercy
as well as
justice

sometimes realizing these are the same
in fact

though mostly laws and lawmakers
who serve self
not the good self
or self’s
agenda
first

well
I started back on Sunday
and it’s
still Sunday
a day of value because
it’s the now
we have
and could be Monday
any day
that’s the now
we have

and God is over us
and as we want
God
through us

and how much
so very
agonizing much
must God
be waiting
for faith to start and also faith
to live
beyond the start

sigh
so believe in God
in spite of all our
well
things of us
that get in the way
of our being us
or things of the world
that do the same
and also
take us from
the love we have in God
self
and each other

about as
simple as it gets
really

God made everything
and us
and it as “good” by God
to have done so
or add an exclamation point by
James Weldon Johnson
and
things went wrong
and
don’t blame anyone but everyone

fell to the extent
that over ages
we’re still measuring

though as far as goes
can get up
whenever
meaning whenever

ask God
for help
and even for the life

and is in thanks
to offer service
to the good
as one is able

and let one work that out
with God

not for perfection
yet
but for redemption
yes
and also frankly
the delight
in the pleasures of the moments
with having the better way
for
the other moments

then on to delight
and
did God say
(and did)
peace and joy
even
now

if in irony with the world
the promises good things yet
does not
know them
really

but life with God
now
and was it mentioned
(and it was)
a life to come
that we should know has come
already to
the saints before us
and
small “s”
that is

for the sants among us
as us
now

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