Invitation To Live

One can get a charley horse in calf or heart or head,
And when the spasms seize us we soon think that we are dead.
Not fatal, nor enduring are such incapacities,
But halting us quite thoroughly as quickly as can be.

As lifeguard we were taught of these, and dangers they present,
For swimmers can get cramps in legs and think their life is spent.
It’s not, of course, but try to tell a thrashing derivish
Much better – see to freeing from the net this tangled fish.

There’s nothing wrong that quiet and relaxing won’t attend –
Two muscles pull together, stead of flexing thigh to bend;
So sit a spell, apply perogies, maybe apple pie
And talk about some other thing, let God address the sigh.

It’s not that we do nothing for attentive we must be
If we’re to be available if “this or that” He needs.
It may not come (directive word) perogies are just fine;
But when it does, you’ll know, because it takes you ’cross that line.

You’ll never know, not can you guess what action it will be,
Or word to speak, or thing to do (or not) believe you me;
But magic is the moment when you do what He presents,
For in that moment freedom comes, His love it represents.

It’s not just anyone who turns the tide in given case –
God views the channel of his love important as His grace
He’ll shut a person’s ears to other channels of His love
Until the time, and place, and channel’s there to send His Dove.

So what to do in meantime if they flat reject as source?
Cut off communication, bailing out without remorse?
It’s more like love of Mamas in their son’s and daughter’s lives –
Increased communication and attention – life then thrives.

It takes a while sometimes, of course, messaging muscle knot,
But changes in our lives confuse our muscle groups a lot.
The chemicals that sweep through us to gear us up for kids,
Create an uproar in us, then again when body rids.

But life is full of stressors which can give the same effect
Our hearts and minds pull spasmically – result is cramp or tick.
God provides us families to ease our tensed response,
Messaging aching muscles, heads, and hearts – not all at once –

Nice thing about a family, they’re there for us a while;
But even that’s not possible for everybody’s style.
So God provides community, enlivens other’s hearts
To bring perogies over with some tea and apple tarts.

Sometimes we cannot help the folks whose troubles we can see,
But we can turn to God and say we at His service be.
If we are serious in heart, response may come that day
To do some “this or that” for Him, some deed, or word to say –

It may not be the obvious – some wacky things He gives
For us to do, we cannot often see the way He lives –
But as we do what He suggests, and trust His larger view,
If we are patient He will use our act, His work to do.

Sometimes it is quite indirect – He sends us down the street
To take perogies to that person no one else will greet.
But when we do, we melt a heart of one who melts the next,
Till one fine day it comes around and, hey – your target’s blessed!

Nobody else will know just how that person got set free,
Except for us, who got to take the dish of perogie,
We see – with eyes of faith – the works of Him who loves us all,
For He has touched our lives like that, in world that is so small.

Some think that “interceding” is a hocus-pocus prayer;
Perhaps it is, but for this guy, it’s more that life’s in layers;
And if we open up our lives, respond obediently,
He lets us into parts of life that others cannot see.

They can, of course, but they walk by such daily Works of Power
And wonder in the darkness where God is this passing hour.
He’s all around, and active, aching heart for hurting sheep;
And wondering if we’ll ever wake our eyes from walking sleep.

He longs to ask us in to life abundant in our world,
A life beyond all comprehension, way beyond the swirl.
But He’ll not push or shove us to respond or to obey –
“You’re free to come and go in life – tomorrow and today”,

I love this work, like front-row seat with popcorn in a box;
I get to watch and listen while the greatest of them walks
Among us people on this earth, most quite oblivious
To His presence and His work of healing all of us.

So why would I suggest connections – “this” or “that” or “now”?
I have to own my hearing – may mis-hear His words somehow;
But when I pray for others, He gives stuff for me to do;
I’ve learned to trust His wisdom – glue my Bible to my shoes.

I’ve long-since stopped pretending that I know His providence;
I’ve learned to hold my judgement, see what else He then presents.
And even when I think I know, or see a part at least,
Quite often other facts emerge that speak to such release.

Life complex is, we need not know the total picture now;
What’s more important for each one is when, and where, and how,
We are to act to give God room to do his Works of Power
To ease some person’s charley horse – perhaps this very hour.

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