Zimsum

I like poems that make me think, explicate my beliefs, challenge the rote answers, and wonder. This post from MinEmergent (I get their daily thought emails) is one that I want to come back to this week.....more than once.  The thought that "there is the opportunity for real hope to break in" is one I have been pondering. How does it happen? How am I a part? Where should my strength come from? Where do I find my balance in the duality that I am enough and yet can lean into God?

ZIMSUM

Terry L. Chapman 

God Is In Control

Really?

No matter how many times

I hear these words 

there is a voice,

that with convincing whisper,

insists this is faux hope.

Some, in order to live

as if this is the rock on

which the castle of their faith is built 

remain vigilantly poised on the parapet 

summoning the hope they learned in Sunday School

 that the siege of life's demons

might be held back

by making the confession over and over- 

God is in control

God is in control

God is in control

as if by its very repetition it 

might become true

and at last the weapons of 

this spiritual warfare can be 

but back in the armory-

God is in control

God is in control

God is in control!

Hoping against all hope

that it is true-the unimaginable 

betrayal that it isn't.

To say so is to turn your back on all

that is right, and true and american-

sinking into the abyss unbelief. 

God is not in control.

There, I said it.

Now in the letting go of these

shackles that, unimaginably,

restrict God's freedom,

God's wild, beautiful, terrible

intention to create a free world,

there is an opening created

for real hope to break in-

real hope

that all that is is in God

in whom we live and move and have being.

And not just us but the other too.

And not just the other but the whole cosmos

in God has being.

Real hope is

that God bears all-

that all is in the womb of God-

that out of this space-in-God

the new is being born

and in the fullness of time

God will be all in all 

and there will no longer

be any need to believe

God is in control.

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