He still loves us

The pain follows us

Wherever

And everywhere

We cringe under the load

Yet we feel obliged to carry it

Such stupidity

We argue

Husband and wife

Brother and brother

Sister and sister

Parents and children

We don’t listen

We say we listen

We hear what we imagine

We hear what we think we’re supposed to hear

We hear what our feelings tell us to hear

We don’t stop and pay attention

Communication gone out the window

I wonder if we ever truly learned it

Miscommunication is the way --
we’ve learned that well

Perhaps that too goes back
to the very beginning
when God created man
and woman
Everything was fine
until one quiet day
all fury burst forth
Satan strode in on his
black horse, all proud,

filled with hate for Him
who he couldn’t be

Bound and determined
to undermine Him at
every possible turn
He’d get even, he’d show
God how big he was,
how important he was,
how he could destroy
humanity with the power
of negative thinking
and undergird it with
selfish thinking.

And we would fall prey
to him.

Oh yes, Satan had it
all figured out
and us,
what do we do?

We allow him.

Such stupidity

If we could go back
back to the beginning
back to freedom
If we could just say NO
to Satan
NO to self
NO to negative thoughts
that dash our hopes
and bring us back to that
disgusting place we don’t want to be.

God gave us life

Not once, but twice
He offers us joy

And we have the gall to say no?

We refuse His love
He allowed His Son to go to the cross
for us,
for our sins

Jesus, who had no sin
He died for me

He died for you

And we say NO to Him?!

Such stupidity

Such pain and grief
our Father feels

Yet He still loves us.

(c) July 24, 2012