© 2020 Duane Johnson
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| To Beget Or Not to Beget That Is the Question | Volume 20, Number 1, 2020 (Summer) — Index | Contrasting Jesus and Paul |
I’m not likely to forget an encounter this unique:
an epiphany is emerging from my interface
with the boundaries of Little Lake Shawnee,
a natural lake for children, our little ones,
drained while improvements are made.
Stones, uniformly carved and faithfully fitted
to this tiny lake’s old shoreline
form a collar-colored wall, a boundary
four feet high.
Coincidentally perhaps, I’ve been pushing
the envelope of my collared mind
to explore the expanding boundaries of the evolving God,
One that grows by embracing and becoming
the experience of each and every one of us
in our cornucopic encounters with each other.
And now, this encounter with a wall,
intelligently crafted, though unaware of me
as I tightrope along the edge of it
to an unfinished spot where there is no wall
—a 60-foot gap, intended
for some purpose I don’t comprehend.
I sense an unspoken promise in that unknown purpose,
one self-similar to the greater Mystery I’ve been stalking
as It emerges, self-aware and with holy purpose.
I believe I’m emerging as well,
which may explain why I see promise in mystery,
whereas, in my youth, as a little one,
I trembled at unknown gaps.
The next time I visit this part of the park
I expect I’ll see this puzzle solved.
Not so with the Mystery that is the evolving God,
an enigma born at the dawn of time and space
and promising not to be fully revealed
until eons from now.
We have a choice to remain in this unfolding mystery
sometimes draining ourselves while improvements are made
fearlessly exploring the supreme intelligence behind the wall,
all the while being gifted to know
we are the little ones, and God keeps his promises.
| To Beget Or Not to Beget That Is the Question | Volume 20, Number 1, 2020 (Summer) — Index | Contrasting Jesus and Paul |