saturday | october 16 | 2010

unanticipated agents of grace.

the effulgent energies of God

can take such bizarre shapes.

we often bow down before

images of conflated paradigms

of dads, lovers, kings, and ghosts,

forgetting that Consuming Fire

which once appeared in an

unwithered, holy shrub.

thrones and romances are hardly

his style. he doesn't throw on jeans

and toss around the football. that's

not to say that he wouldn't, it's just

what we'd imagine he'd do, but such

ineffable splendor refuses cliché.

he comes to us preferring to use

things that are, well, a little weird.

twists and turns of plot, questioning

questions, fighting oppression with love,

scouring the souls of men by

dwelling in their flesh, and on day three

rising from the dead. with a God

who remains above, beyond, and within all

things, one must expect the unexpected, hoping

that we will be filled despite our own unlikeliness.