Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Broken Mirror



BROKEN MIRROR

WHO CAN PUT A LIMIT TO GOD’S LOVE

WHO CAN PUT A FENCE AROUND IT

AND SAY TO THOSE OUTSIDE THE FENCE

YOU DO NOT BELONG TO GOD

WHO COULD BUILD SUCH A FENCE

WE

IN OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE

HAVE BUILT SUCH A FENCE

MUSLIMS

JEWS

HAVE BUILT SUCH FENCES

BUDDHISTS

HINDUS

ET CETERA ET CETERA ET CETERA

HAVE BUILT SUCH FENCES

DOES GOD NOT WEEP

WHEN HE LOOKS AT HIS CREATION

AND SEES PEOPLE CROWDED BEHIND FENCES

WHEN IN HIS PLAN

THERE ARE NO FENCES

IS IT NOT TIME TO SAY

THAT THE SAME SPIRIT

THAT WHISPERS IN OUR EAR

THAT GOD IS LOVE

WHISPERS THE SAME SONG

TO ALL OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS

ON WHATEVER SIDE

OF MAN MADE FENCES THEY ARE

THAT THE VIEW OF GOD IS GREATER

THAN OURS

HE IS NOT TRAPPED

BY COUNTRY

CASTE

OR CREED

THAT GOD’S PLAN

IS FOR VALLEYS TO BE FILLED

MOUNTAINS BROUGHT LOW

ROADS LEVEL AND STRAIGHTENED

SO ALL HIS PEOPLE MAY MIGRATE

WHERE THEY WILL

FREELY

UNDER HIS SMILING SUN

WHERE THE LION AND THE LAMB

WILL BE HOUSEHOLD PETS

THAT GOD WHEN HE SENT HIS SON

WANTED CREATION RESTORED

BY HIS BIRTH

WANTED CREATION RESTORED

AS IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING

BEFORE THE MIRROR OF CREATION

WAS SHATTERED

THAT HE WANTED HIS SON

TO BE A CO-WORKER

WITH HIS FELLOW HUMANS

TO BRING BACK TOGETHER

ALL THE PIECES OF THE MIRROR

EACH ONE TASKED TO DO HIS SHARE

ENLIVENED BY THE INCARNATION

GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD

AS SIMPLE AS THAT

FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT

HE SEES NO FENCES

AND THE WAY

THE TRUTH

AND THE LIGHT

ARE OPEN AND AVAILABLE TO ALL MEN

LORD AS WE LABOR

TO RESTORE THE SHARDS OF YOUR CREATION

AS WE LABOR

TO MAKE THE MIRROR WHOLE

WE CATCH A GLIMPSE OF OURSELVES

IN THE PIECE WE HOLD

AND WE KNOW

THAT WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT YOU

AND YOU ARE SMILING

FRANK A VOLLMER

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