Grace for Complexities

More of us are feeling the need for grace these days as we seek solutions for financial threats. More people are carrying crushing debt and looking at a poverty level life in the middle of the wealthiest nation on earth. We know that we do not deserve to be bailed out, but we hope we won't be annihilated, or have to live like slaves the rest of our lives. The complexities that humanity has created are even more impenetrable than those we as individuals have woven. Only God can disentangle the impossible.

"And my lyre rings
As audacious birds cast
Vitality tree to tree
For You have not erased
But entered into complexes
We have layered: self-conceit,
Deceit consumed,
Oppressed to death.


"Not as a super-nova
Remakes elements, come You,
But pleading my cause between
These little ones big of mind
Who work at enmity;
And beam Your light beneficently
Leading through invented nations,
Webs of mourning desperation,
To Your hill above the clamor
Where is my hope,
My help of countenance,
Who makes all things
Vibrate collaborating
Strings life singing."

Mark R. Turner
Julian, CA
April 10, 2009
Related Scripture: Psalm 43

There is a blessed, undeserved hope when we think we are impossibly bound and lost.


We will sing of it together,


Mark