FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY

FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY

Alain Emerson shared this line from a Jeff Lucas sermon... written at a sanitised and inane Carol Service on the day that I watched one of my students bury the love of her life, who had been killed in a car accident.

Nicely rounded explanations

Safe and sanitised solutions

A magic text for every doubt

A definitive answer for every mystery

 “There, there everything’s going to be alright.”

FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY.

 

A woman abused and left used, abused and lonely

A teenage widow behind the love of her life’s coffin

A child whose legs were ripped from his body by landmines

A ten year old township orphan cooking for her little brothers

A father whose child has been found strangled in the forest park

FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY.

 

A recently wall papered stable

Freshly washed cattle and perfumed straw

A carpenter with extra mural studies in midwifery

Theologically sound eastern stargazing mystics

A perfect little baby “no crying he makes”

FOR GOD’S SAKE GIVE US SOME REALITY.

 

Impoverished and homeless

Germs breeding in the filth and squalor

A teenage girl screams birth fierce pain

Death squads in the dawn’s first light

 Refugees running in fear of their lives

FOR GOD’S SAKE, BORN INTO THE MIDST OF REALITY.

Comments

[David]

thanks Stocki...