Out of this ugly mess

Out of this ugly mess,

this attitude of 'I'm the best',

no time, no rest,

just test after test

forgetting each other,

sister and brother,

a tool of a lover,

lies should cover,

our cries,

our ties,

our sighs,

our good byes,

which we deny,

we buy,

time, time, 

time magazine,

hoping it does not end,

that death isn't just around the bend,

that God his angel will not send,

that our life will not blend

in with the host of others

the time gone past

fast fast fast

behind us now

deeds of which we are proud

deeds we sing about loud

and those we ignore

those which bore

into our hearts' core

defying hope,

defying joy,

defying love,

defying God

comes

light.

Let's make them beautiful

My heart lies in a place unknown.

As I have been reading a little bit about St Francis I have rediscovered some of what I am passionate about. I have relearnt that God cares for the poor, the sick, the destitute, the broken. I have recalled why I wept over these things once upon a time. And yesterday I wept once more.


Chasing Francis has been a challenging book for me. Wonderfully written and brilliantly told the story unfolds in a majestic challenge to the Christian who has forgotten the way is Jesus. As mentioned in an earlier post the book explores pilgrimage. As the main character, Chase, is coming to the end of his pilgrimage he tells his guide that he must leave in two days. In response his guide says,


"Let's make them beautiful."

 These four words brought me to tears. I had forgotten what it is like to call a day beautiful. I used to drive to work singing, "This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." I lost something of this joy recently. It ebbed away as I carried on working in my own strength, trusting to my own skills and my own knowledge. Instead, I need to turn to Christ, to kneel at his feet and find joy in supplication once more. I need to remember that each day can be beautiful, that each moment is as beautiful as I make it. As I step into tomorrow and the day after I am thinking to myself, "Let's make them beautiful."
 

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Please be lenient on me as I struggle through this fog of unknowing.

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