chasing the sun

Do you think every generation feels
the sense of longing and desire
for peace and true communion
that we feel?
Do you think they could put it into words,
or did they just act out in aggression,
or make controversial music,
or start chain-smoking?

I think the true hippies felt it.
I think Israel in bondage in Egypt felt it.
I think Martin Luther felt it when he penned his 95 Theses and nailed them to the church door.

God is becoming more real to me.
He’s doing the very thing I have asked and pleaded with Him to do
I see His schemes,
His vision…
I see Him for who He truly is.
More than mere superhero,
He is,
in His very being,
the response to all questions
of “Why?” and “How?”
I could ever ask.

I wish I knew how,
without speaking the muddled language of commercial Christianity,
I could describe the God who is revealing Himself to us…to me.
It’s not so mysterious that it cannot be felt,
the presence of God.
Neither is it so systematic that it can be understood fully…

The word that comes to mind first is ALIVE.

If God is a person,
yet more than a person,
but still a person,
then He is alive.
And just like me and you,
He is a bit of the practical and mysterious intertwined,
though perhaps a more perfect blend
than you or me.