HOW TO GET A BETTER WORLD [Su, 11-1-20]

 CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

HOW TO GET A BETTER WORLD            [Su, 11-1-20]

 

I think that one reason

perhaps the chief reason

that old people are so irascible

and cantankerous

is that there are so few

hearts left to pray for us.

Grandparents, parents, aunts

and uncles, long-time friends,

they have passed on

to where, I trust,

their prayers still resonate

in the ears of God

but are used up

in the other reaches of the soul

before they find

their place in the universe

to return to now,

that God might use them here.

If it’s a better world

for which you yearn

double up on your prayers

for the curmudgeonly.

John Robert McFarland

My late and much-missed friend, Herb Beuoy, used to say: “It is our business to love people, and God’s business to change them.”