Tuesday, December 8, 2009

up front and a little too human


tonight the raucous weather front is here. the rain is coming down on the bit of remnant snow left behind. the wind is carrying bits and pieces of what has risen from the past. not sure if the waters will reach the bridge deck. it isn't really unusual. and so we have learned to deal with it. 

somehow i don't think we deal or really tolerate humanness vey well. well, it isn't the sort that you hold out front. the clothes we wear, the face we carry, the acts we plot and do behind the scenes. what a fix we are in. because more often than not we just don't seem to have a right way to tackle those difficult issues.

and i guess it begs a question of how do you really contemplate if not actually doing it. you know, starting over. ok a new direction, but with a past.

innovate living and working together and novel ideas in a novel way.

novel ideas, huh.

i like to stand in a stiff wind. to feel the rain pelt against my face. a glance at the sky and either disappear into the grayness or to ride along on the clouds.

a peak of blue can bring a smile and a reminder that there is hope.

the hope of a creator and the courage to face uncertainty and the hard decisions that your (our) times may dictate.

what is it, james said faith and works. and maybe the feather that forest talked about. what is it "light as a feather" jesse talked about. no, not the biblical jesse either. but then again, yes maybe...

i'm listening now.

it's i dreamed a dream. perhaps storms we cannot weather, but yes, storms that will pass by. i suppose we are all dust in the wind. yet, one hopes that copenhagen brings hope. hope that we can work together. i think that real humanness is rising to the real challenge of growing our garden together. with All the Biological World in uniting to make a common future. those that hear this call will understand. it is for those in copenhagen. that they may listen and God may show. show us the path to a common light.