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Grow Us

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Grow Us

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Will you grow us

God

Give us the chance

Even with tense peace

Our contribution

To the means

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On an Earth

That has its way

But

We push against

For what we think

Advances us

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Maybe with some relenting

Rather

Enjoy the Earth

As is

The wisdom

In the higher places

Thin air to breathe

For penance

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The living in the valleys

Towns and farms

For habitation

And for food

That daily bread

We talk

About

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Also forgiving

Tempered in forgiven

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So that

As is

As defined

Ain’t bad

Especially when

We’ve changed so much

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We could stand

(like plants)

To remember

Even renew

With

Re-expression

The peace in what was made

And is

And still is

The promise of return

From no investment

Save faith and some respect

For having

All this wonder

Bestowed

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Plant us

As in Eden

And water us

For life

Not to keep us

Stuck

But to grow us

Free

Out into the world

Anthropocene

For now

Maybe better in alliance

With the one who planted

First

And still

Tills with real peace

In

Genesis dynamic

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Amen

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C L Couch

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Good Time, I Hope

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Good Time, I Hope

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God

May I talk

With you

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My health might be improving

Just a little

By just a little

And I thank you

In part because

I want to make a lot

Out of a little

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I want to ask your pardon

For my sins

Though really

I want to assume

Upon a doctrine

Not to have to talk them out

Remember things

With you

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Or again assume

You know them

Anyway

And will excuse me

On my asking

Even broadly

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Clearly

By tone

I think I’m wrong in that

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But for your pardon

Even with my fractured approach

I thank you

And I love you

Have I mentioned that

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I feel confused

About what’s next

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I mean

I know there’s heaven

Though I don’t know

Heaven

But honestly I mean now

The now that I know

As best I know

And what to do

I don’t mean tired questions

Lived for decades

Without answers

I could grasp

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I mean today

And for a little direction

Into tomorrow

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Could you help me out

If I’m feeling better

With a little better-ness

What shall I do

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Keep healing

I suppose

Try to bear

And wear

Virtue a little closer

Then to

Try to be positive

And send positive

All the while

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That is

Maybe for a change

Keep doing this

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Now

It seems

I hope

I hope I found a little something

This time

That had been piecemeal

Over time

And now should be

Seamed together

For a broader cloth

You might accept

For a flag

Or coverlet

Or on the table

Where we gather

To remember

And negotiate

Earth

Or

Eternity

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You’ve been listening

Over years

You have been listening

I’m thankful

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Even in pain

Your presence

For my life

Since when there’s void

There is too much

To bear

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Well

Thank you

Lord

I’ll keep working

As it is

And feeling

Of your presence

More than doctrine

In my life

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C L Couch

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This is personal

And cosmic

It’s for you

All verse is for you

Food

For ingesting

Water

For the thirst

You maybe did not know

You had to have

Me

Too

All to have

In being

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Dona Nobis Please

(x = space)

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Dona Nobis Please

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God

I wish I knew a round

And had a choir

Volunteered

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A canon in the better sense

For meaning without questioning

The bias

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I guess

What I really mean

Is to write the round

For exigence

A canon for the evening

Fluidly

To welcome stars

And thoughts of rest

And afterward

Retire

With notes to welcome dreams

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Amen

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C L Couch

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The Lord Hears

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The Lord Hears

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The Lord hears

Our prayers

We don’t how they’re

Tallied or remembered

If there’s a meeting

On each day in heaven

When and where

Angels receive assignments

Even discuss

The timing

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Each word is heard

There is no requirement

We may ask in faith

Or doubt

We might be easy in our words

Or difficult

Say something

It is heard

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It might be yes or no

Though the Lord is more than

Binary

There must be many ways

To answer prayer

Materially

Abstractly

With small mechanical change

Or simply in an attitude

Encouraged to endure

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Good is still pretty good

Without the bad

There is a learning value

We suppose

But ask for what is needed

And think about

Confession

And thanksgiving

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Dear and

Amen

Is not

Are not

Required

Say either or both

For a beginning and an ending

Or you know

Don’t

Leave the prayer suspended

In the air

For someone else to catch

To carry with endearment

For another’s hearing

And response

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There’s always something next

Pray badly

Stutter in your heart

Speak

Or simply think your prayer with God

Pray what Jesus taught

As a responsibility

An affirmation

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But however

The words go

And whichever

We will be heard by truth

And responded to

With love’s

Practicality

And maybe by our reckoning

A miracle

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Listened

And responded to

The transactional nature of the world

Confirms

It points the way

Creation’s creator

Reckoning perfectly

Providing something always

In return

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C L Couch

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Te Deum

(x = space)

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Te Deum

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I pray to God

And Jesus

Rarely directly to

The Holy Spirit

Sorry, Spirit

Though it seems

I’m talking with you

All the time

As an indication

A reality

Of indwelling

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You are the nearest

The closest part

Of God

In fact, in me

While I know

It’s three in one

But for all I know

It might be

That you are the part of God

Who is the most patient

Part

(indwelling)

And who somehow

Loves me best

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C L Couch

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What Do We Pray For

(x = space)

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What Do We Pray For

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Say something to us

Please

What we want

To hear

Might be nice

But when we know

When we turn the wheel

And this turns up

As consciousness

We know

Our self-deceits

Or can

Or maybe that’s just it

We need some freedom

From ourselves

Something

In a gospel message

Breaking through

(shining a little?)

Our conceits

Both kinds

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Our designs

Are based on pi

We calculate

We cannot calculate

But must have things

Anyway

And so the n

And so the sigma

All the unending

Sequences

That long before

The ether part

We count

And build

Move in

And have our castles

In the mind

And everything in fact

Upon the Earth

And orbiting

Around

And for a while now

Our trips

Through the planets

Now hoping to evangelize

A neighbor star

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So many ways we build

On unknowing

And the consequential

Binding ourselves

To our ideas

To our agendas

And to hiding them

Our civilized

Transgression

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Maye a word of clarity

Then

Maybe

Maybe a smidgeon

Of what’s real

Delivered in a jiff

Or honesty

Yeah

Maybe we could take that

Please

And thank you

We mean

(we want

to mean it)

Amen

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C L Couch

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Contritions

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Contritions

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I don’t know what else to say

I wish I could resort

To the Bible better

I wish I knew

The right way to pray

Rather than the stabs I take

To try

I wish I were more righteous

In the right way

I think there is a right way

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But you are there

And I am here

And you are here

With angels to assist

I know

Beyond a fancy

More than because

I’m supposed to

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I believe

Because I do

And my choice doesn’t affect

At all

Your existence

My choice important

Faith to allow the grace

Free sacrifice

To hold

Even take root

And grow

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But what am I

Nothing of

A Gospel hero

Let alone the older tales

Or new ones

What shall I give to you

You don’t already have

And more

And better

But that the slip of self

The folded leaf along the vein

Whose only purpose left

In fall

Is falling

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But that you want me

Anyway

Though I find wanting

Every way

A scary thing

That is the lesson of the world

Through splintering experience

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You can bring enough

Together

I know this

And enough might be enough

I’ll pray

I’ll try to read

To comprehend

The wisdom

Or maybe

Just enough

Justly to pray

Enough salvation

For today

Should you come by night

And then by night

Like heart attacks

Frightening

To take me home

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C L Couch

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dedication holy

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dedication holy

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do we love these people?

yes, we do

each one

every one

you have made it this far

now let us go with you

in everything

all circumstances

light and shadow

as God is there

we commit

to be there, too

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(add now

our prayers and meditations

from our

part of the family

new fam’ly

for the one)

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amen

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C L Couch

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“The Smallest Things,” “Peace Relative”

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The Smallest Things

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It’s cold

There is a blanket

There are enough things

For morning coffee

And toast

For breakfast later on

There is sunlight

So our whole planet

Has another

Day

There is water

I can drink

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I can wash things

I can

Wash me

x

I have trash

Lined up in bags

Somewhere to take it

I have other piles

(boxes)

By the door

That should I have the

Help

Can go away

Be useful for others who

Might need some things

I had

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My

Neighbors

Beat the ceiling

But there are no literal explosions

We are lucky

We have things

We can share

When

We want to

We can live in peace relative

To what’s inside

But peace for war

All

The same

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C L Couch

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Peace Relative

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Relative to war

And to shutting doors

To keep things out

As if

We hadn’t seen or heard them

Once before

Or every day

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Relative to shining in

With sunlight

Rather than

Explosives

Something negligent

Or something planned

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Maybe not peace everywhere

Not yet

And peace organic

Certainly not remaining

Only

Peace from graves

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Gravesides are pretty

And they’re quiet,

Mostly

We can do so much better

We should

We must

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We want

To be there

At the end

And how about

A single turning page

Into the story of

Today?

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Be there for that

Lift each other

The greater adventure

Is not war

Or even matter turned to energy

(it should go

the other way around)

But matters

Of the story

Withheld until we know

We have

Today

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Next chapter

Please God

Please

Each other

Please

Let’s have the next

Have the next

Now

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Now

Now

And now

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C L Couch

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