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
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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