A Simple Look At Holy Week's Beginning

The smell of coffee creeps into the room
I’ll get myself a cup to watch the sun rise soon
It’s Monday, the beginning of Holy Week
Once again to understand God’s and human behavior I seek
Isaiah says of God’s servant, “He will not cry or lift up his voice”
Humankind makes its own good/horrible choice
Politicians and pundits of all stripes would speak for the divine
Let us pray to God that this Holy Week God our dross will refine
Every year, to my despair, the journey nears its end
God an incredible message continues to send

Spring"Oddball Theology for the Fifth Sunday of Lent"

She washed his feet with sweet perfume; I revolt at the smell of a flower's too sweet bloom. Perhaps she spread the fragrance with her hair; I would be uncomfortable with such intimate care. The Christ readily accepted the gift; such acceptance, like a quake in the earth, causes my soul to shift.

Spring

Come now to spring
where one can get lost in the hope it brings.
The budding of all things green
can lure the heart to dream.
So free yourself to frolic in the season's sheen
as God makes a weed to become a flower; the world is redeemed.

A Rainy Afternoon Prayer

God be in this day our lead
Waiting to look at something I may buy
Wondering what I can do to help those who cry
Let me not be deaf to the cry and respond to the need
Lead us all the cry of the needy to understand
Let us listen with compassion to their words
Let us act in way that tells them they have been heard
God help us all by your redemptive hand

“I ate too much for Supper”

Full, of food I’ve had and possess plenty
Empty and hungry there those without any
“Wrap up your extra and send it to them,” some snidely say
Well it seems we have come to that day
Thank you for asking how
A food program called “Stop Hunger Now”
For a quarter Bubba can buy a meal
Why he can even help pack it and close the seal
Jane can help and not even break a fingernail
As the food is packed with money she put in the mail
I believe it is time we all a quarter, a dollar, etc. freely give
Why by sending a little money to make a lot someone can live
Victor Ronald Chatham

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