Great (from Lamentations 3)

Lord...

Your Name is great
Your mercy is great
Your love is great
Your wrath is great
Your attention to us
Is great...and a bit
Puzzling.

We aren't powerful like
Angels...or
Demons...
We aren't beautiful like
Some
Of the graceful creatures who
Glide over the land...
Fly above the earth...or
Slip through the seas.

We can be the meanest, least
Desirable of companions
Betraying one another for
Profit...
Abandoning one another for
The latest thing...or even
A younger thing
Spreading our low practice of love
To yet another
Generation.

Copying Jesus

Lord,
The only ting we can copy
Straight from You
Is Your determination
to do only
what Your Father
told You to do...
to say only
what You heard
Your Father saying...

Everything else you did
Was in direct repsonse
Both to
Your Father's words
and what
You saw the needs
Of others to be.