Look for the Way to Know

Look for the Way to Know

            1.   I believe it was Loren Eiseley who first said that however

                  we comprehend the almighty, it is one of “the many

                  faces of God.”

            2.   Only this week a friend said to me, “Just by using the

                  word God, you’re a believer somehow.

            3.   I grew up in Protestant fundamentalism and walked

                  away from it. Still, some kind of intimacy with God via

                  Jesus has appeal.

            4.   It seems plausible that on another planet in 30

                  millennia, we’ll hear from the lips of Jesus, ”I told you

                  so; Welcome, you’re perfect.”

            5.   Wild possibilities! That’s what I think. I don’t care so

                  much about the how, but that underneath it all, there’s a

                  why.

            6.   Look for a way to know. It makes life better—prepared;

                  as The Tao Te Ching says, to be made rugged and

                  common as a stone.

            7.   Imperturbability seems part of the Plan, the possibility:

                  Wolf and lamb. Peace on “earth.”

Bound

God, I search

for the way to address

You—

He, She, It or

sometimes, I even wonder,

should it be We—

that somehow in

the deepest reaches

in our weak faith

we are You, the

curse and blessing

you have given us,

our failures and successes

in the consciousness of the

Gift.

When we fling ourselves

at your feet in fear

and let lie there

we again are picked up

and bound as you were and

Know.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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