There is a slipping somewhere

I feel the soul-shift

and it’s like

vertigo in my heart

while a wail rises

away away

with

cries and cries

of

 

"something dies!"

 

so in tears

the departed are prepared

while I –

I pray for

resurrection

and a fresh chorus

in the old song

 

but it’s not everyday

the body comes forth

new child from a stone womb

sometimes the dead stay cold

sometimes the dead remain 

dry bones in a dark tomb

 

Somebody iced the sky tonight

in baby blue cream

set the sun down west

a spotlight on this stage

glow glow

its all a glow

every leaf a mint transparency

and in the back

behind it all

night is lurking

deep and brooding

pulling down the fire

and stretching shadows

pulling black like a sheet

over every color

while the grayscale world awaits

 

 

I just finished reading a devotional on Job to close out the day and one of the quotes in the devotional that caught my eye and made me thing is the following:

 

"Job is in a true relationship to God, as the three friends are not: a relationship of heart and soul, life-or-death passion…God is infinite love, and the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Job’s love for God is infected with hate, but the three friends’ love for God is infected with infifference.Job stays married to God and throws dishes at him; the three friends have a polite nonmarriage, with separate vacations. The family that fights together stays together." – Peter Kreeft

 

I don’t know how much I understand what Kreeft is saying but I sense truth in it. If I were to set up a false dichotomy (which I do often) then one side of a relationship would be love and the other side would be indifference (apathy). Love is passionate and indifference just doesn’t care. Indifference is whatever. Indifference is meh.

 

Perhaps it is a spectrum with love on the far left and indifference on the far right and the question is where do you land in your relationships? Where are you in your relationship with God, spous, children, friends, etc.?

 

Thoughts to ponder for the weekend.