Typing Calvinist

Relationships

I’m not good with these
At these

Look at me
Alone
While typing
Word of Earth and faith
As if
I know

At least I have good sources
To go to

And
Yes
This is a solitary act
Traditionally and
Typically
Insofar as that is an operable excuse

But what
Do I know
Whom
Do I
Know

And I don’t know and this
Is doubt
Or course or sometimes when
I refuse to listen
To God
Or you
Or anyone

Too busy with that log in my eye
To see
The virtues of
My sibling people
(who are
all
people)
And while the log means a good challenge
It can be excess
Self-preoccupation
Too

But
Finally to set this down
To set anything on an electron page
Nonetheless
To be
Picked up in an archetypal way
To read
And to respond

This must for you
For all of you
And all for you

There is no reason
Other

Self-expression
Sure
But not enough as we might say
That we are good
And that
Is not enough

C L Couch


(Protestants like work and Calvin liked grace and also Mary; I don’t know enough of Hobbes to say (hah), though I do think most good things go together--say, spirit and flesh; faith and work; readers and writers (when both are good or trying good); voice and text

and with apologies for abstruseness)

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