easy awe

how frightened should we be of God
to know the power
that
nothing could hold against

so that a weapon of deception
is
the only choice
for devils
since nothing material
if owned
could
stand a chance as in pitching
God’s own
against
God’s own

and yet a God of love
who
waits for choosing
maybe
by still water
or in the troughs of war
or
by the bedside
when
the sickness is bad

or
with the victims of the drought
that
civil conflicts caused
or
because dry seasons happen
anyway

and that is power
too

and so to hate or love
or
frustrate the faith
for
everything that’s giving and that’s taking

God
who seems to have chosen for God
an invisible place
from which to offer presence
and so
the paradox of that
for faith

truth in the trees
or at
the hilltop where the sun has danced
and
thousands choose it is
the bright and
even painful
show
of God

show for
real
and for them proof enough to choose

and
now
for the rest
only with evidence unseen
and filtered through a dark glass
of our insight
at
best

and what we shall believe
while love even to forestall power
awaits

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