Thom writes:Each week, I post three words. You write something using the words.
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This week's words:
Compromise; Decision; Forward
It's Not My Father's Oldsmobile
The nor'easter comes -
there's no compromise with God.
We all know that one.
What's my decision
to be in the face of things
like this? I reserve
my rights to forward
my messages as if God will
read them all right now.
I don't know why I
insist on this arrogance
but I always have.
November 7, 2012 4:45 AM
Isn't that the truth!? Fine poem, and great use of the prompt words.
ReplyDeleteBold, imaginative use of the 3 words...
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this one...humorous but thoughtful at the same time.
ReplyDeleteI love the title..I love the symmetry between words and picture..I scrolled to the end to look for your usual post-script..that it is not there this week made me smile..wry..words..do hope they keep on chugging out..as if from god..jae
ReplyDeleteIt is not arrogance to forward your questions, only to expect meaningful answers.
ReplyDeleteIt may be arrogant that I expect God to read them at least, and right now! How about that? Arrogant...
DeleteI love this,
ReplyDeleteAnd where does the speaker's insistence get him or her?
ReplyDeleteMy 3-Word Wed.
Passion is driving here it seems to me. You can't judge on the front end - only in hind sight. You're right enough, I suppose, if that was ever the reason to start or not - how it would turn out. The passion is part of the arrogance, I'm guessing.
DeleteYou must be profoundly reasonable or wanting to be to raise the issue. :D
As St.Peter welcomes me in I see God beckon me over, "About that message, I have an answer for for you." As I look in disbelief he sees my face and says "What, did you expect an answer sooner?"
ReplyDeleteOh well, maybe next time... Message from the sponsor: This life is a test. It is only a test. If this life was a real life we would have the answers more freely to hand.
Deleteheh, i come back here and laugh at the reason. (meanwhile laughing at myself.)
ReplyDeletei myself am caught between the pendulum of reason and passion. or is this just another word for human?
xo
erin
I have been taught that my reason is human with a legacy of animal lurking behind it and that my passion is mainly animal but with the human in modest and partial control. Aggressive anger and several fear styles are definitely well established in reptile form and perhaps amphibian. These forms of passion are evolutionary legacies. The palette of passion becomes ever more complex as it rises through mammals. We are only reasonable with the appearance of a human sized cerebral cortex. That added so much volume to human brains as to threaten mothers with the birth experience. Our heads are literally too big! Our arrogance is built in to us. We actually think we will survive being born without killing our mothers. We insist on keeping our brains. Our four footed brothers and sisters do not threaten their mothers in that same way and also do not need such a long childhood because everything is more or less settled for them, but not so for us.
DeleteWell done. The choice to face an immovable and unforgiving force is a difficult one to make when the option could be RUN!
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Stu, especially with storms, I have always had the tendency to go out in them and marvel. Another arrogance: somehow I actually feel safe and protected. I could easily have turned into one of those storm chasers. Thanks for your comment.
Deletesee now I think He definitely reads them all--every single one--and right away; the problem is there are so many to read, He doesn't get a chance to respond (or maybe doesn't much care to).
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that He...She?...actually reads them, perhaps before I even write. There are factors though. Free will. How can my will remain mine if I know for sure what He directs? There is no problem with the number of messages. An infinite One can read infinite messages instantly and I presume answer the same way. I don't know how many other factors there are but I presume the point of this place is the apparent abandonment so many of us feel.
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