Facing Forward, Pursuing Progress
A message from the bishop of my Synod in response to the recent horror in Las Vegas :
I found this a perfectly poetical statement, and a powerful part of his email introducing this letter.
Moving through mid-day
I step outside and reclaim
Focus and vision
What can we now do
To face down our culture’s rage
Find a path to peace
If we all wage peace
Perhaps sanity will reign
Deny destruction
I love when night falls
As the air cools and light wanes
And peacefulness descends
The Fourth was Tuesday
Plus it’s nearly ten at night
Enough fireworks
Sigh…I’m quite ready to be done with fireworks.
So very much rage
We delight in feeding it
I still pray for peace
The day’s busyness
Finally able to sit
Now, to find quiet
This divided world,
How do we come together?
For the common good
Guitar’s caress
Moves against my soul
Alighting my mood