Hope in Egypt

These are the moments where hope is realized...

Watching

Sitting in America
the sense of disregard
rampant and alive
would that we thought
and wondered
or cared

Sitting in America
McDonald’s land my home
sipping modest coffee
observing modest life
sweet diversity
but broken

Sitting in America
the nation of your placement
of this life
whose country is displacement
there or here
sojourning

Sitting in America
land of the (I’m) right
and the (your) wrong
cynical fear masked in words
words of nothing
words of

Sitting in America
forlorn in my, our, its (the) state
of the soul
defeat in victory
laughter of one
whose name is lie.

Sitting in America
beauty in multiplicity of
faces—disfigurement in voices
sitting in the milieu
watching
exhausted.


Watching

RDM : March, 2010

An Undisturbed Life Equals God-Forsaken

Now, beloved, if the divine government is a disturbing element, to be undisturbed is to be God forsaken. If we know nothing of the voice calling us to alter plans and set aside arrangements and simply step out upon the divine word in faith as Abraham did, then we are God forsaken men and women. Beyond that, to be God forsaken is to settle to failure.

“Oh,” you say, “let me stay here; my home is so comfortable, I am so happy.”

God says: “Move from this place and go yonder.”

You say: “I cannot. Let me remain where I am.”

What are you asking? You are asking for your own breakdown and failure. God’s plan for you is progress, growth; and you are asking for arrested development and for failure.

“Oh no,” you say, “I am only asking not to be disturbed.”

They are the same things. When you and I pray, in our foolishness, that God will not disturb us, we ask Him to give us no more progress, but to let us settle where we are and pass down to failure.

—George Campbell Morgan, THE TRUE ESTIMATE OF LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT, p. 69-70