Assumptions

Looking through a keyhole
     always a narrow slice
          a picture, a song, an opinion
               a determined view of what is ahead

Fascinated by the details
     exploring, labeling and re-labeling
          what we perceive
               ruminating on everything of interest

What lies on the other side?
     just beyond our grasp
          the backside of the foreground
               that we so zealously defend?

Do we have experience?
       can we, at least in some things, predict
             thereby  through enlightened, insightful
                 observance
                    engage in seeming newness in more than
     two dimensions?

Can we see around corners to the side
     that is neither dark or light
           rich or poor, wrong or right, perfect or less so
               only different?

Can we enjoy that difference
     without intimidation or fear, arrogance or denial?
          will we ever know beauty as God does,
               assumptions of absolute truth knit together
                        to make a wonderful living thing

Persuit of Pleasure

Jesus - Look at me

I'm a pathetic idiot

Caught up in trying

To feel good

Hoping something right

Comes from something wrong

Father God - I'm sorry

I've heard Your voice of Wisdom

And chosen my comfort

Over Your Joy

My small victories

Over your Peace

My control

Over your

Love and Forgiveness

Jesus - I love You and

I know You Love me because

You are still with me

Because You continue

To want the best

For me

Father - For some reason

I'm still alive

Although many questions

Can be conceived

That fact remains

I am bored and frustrated

Purposeless

In all my experience

I live a life of good deeds

Championing the underdog

Fighting the good fight

To what end?

Father - I want to die

To leave the cesspool of

Shallow desires

Cover-ups for pain

Trying to feel good

Moment to moment

But I'm still alive

The dream - nightmare

Won't end

Jesus - Help me stop

Stumbling from

Circumstances to circumstance

Noodle on noodle

Until my path resembles

A bowl of spaghetti

Father - Thank you for Forgiveness

You made the Way

For me to begin again

I don't care about

Forgiving myself

Tired excuses for

Wrong choices is

What's got me

In this mess

I do care that

You Forgive me and

Separate my past

From my present

And future

In Your heart

- And I know You do because

I know you Care for me

Jesus - I remember how You've

Treated me

Always Loving and Gracious

Kind and Truthful

Jesus - You are my Friend

Close to me

Even now

Even now

Jesus - I am ready

For your simplicity

And You said:

Love God with my whole being

Love my neighbor as myself

And My Command is:

Love one another... Giving, Sacrificial – Love.