Miss Kate has posted the word prompt for us again, this week it’s the word guess. Immediately the words can you guess, do you know popped into mind so I’ll fly with that and see where it takes me.
So I kinda like where these words took me, but am not completely happy with it, but I’d need more than five minutes to refine it I think! 🙂 But it’s not a bad start I think. But seriously, sometimes we just don’t know what’s going on in the people around us. Listening to the Holy Spirit’s prompting, and knowing God’s word better, is our best guide don’t you find? That and working hard to build our community of knowing God.
Can you guess?
Can you guess,
Do you know?
The secrets I hide,
the hurts, do they show?
There’s so much I hid.
Can you know that
generational sin,
Clouds my mind,
Making me cautious, and
rather people shy?
Do you know?
Can you guess?
That cancer lies
beneath my bones,
smiles hide my pain.
Do you know?
Can you even guess?
That Hidden desires,
lack of drive,
rule me so?
Can you guess,
Do you know?
Worldly wisdom,
such as it is,
drives my every desire?
Can you guess,
Do you know?
That perfectionism is
both a curse and a blessing?
Making a job doubly hard?
Do you know?
Can you Guess?
That for all this
an answer lies
in 66 books written long ago?
Did you guess?
Did you know?
How to pay attention
to the wounded around,
and how to answer them clear?
Did you know that
only in community
can we really care for
those in the world around us
and in the church within?
Did you guess it?
God speaks to us always
Psalm 119:10-11
I seek you with all my heart;
do not let me stray from your commands.
I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you.
Acts 2: 42-47
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
There is nothing to be guessed
’bout me, for I will be what I am;
for success I am not dressed,
I’m just a rowdy hooligan
who wanders through a wiser world
well-balanced, beer in either hand
while jokes to either side are hurled,
for I have come to understand
that I’m too right-wing for the left
(they think me Genghis Khan reborn),
and the right think that my brain’s been cleft
by meditation in the early morn,
so here’s the deal and there’s the rub
and it’s time to wreck another pub.
Now Andrew… don’t you be leaving too much wreckage behind….
Insightful, our ability to see the hidden pain in one’s heart lies in our community and how we connect.
I really like this. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know about other people, even those close to us. Only God can know us fully. God bless you.
Thank you Rishie. 🙂
It’s hard for us to guess what hopes and hurts and experiences are beneath the surface of those we meet. Good reminder to pay attention and be patient and kind.
Visiting from FMF#13
we always need to exercise kindness with others don’t we? And it’s so easy to fail at that…. I need this reminder myself eh?
Amen, Annette. Pausing to reflect on your words here today. It kind of prompts me to look upon and assess my internal self more. Thank you. Blessings.
FMF#8
we need to do that more often don’t we Paula?
Amen, Amen to “sometimes we just don’t know what’s going on in the people around us. Listening to the Holy Spirit’s prompting, and knowing God’s word better, is our best guide don’t you find?” So true.
we need to listen more closely yes?
I love it, Annette! There’s so much we don’t know, couldn’t possibly guess about those around us and the secrets that lie beneath the surface. Thanks for the reminder to be listening to the Spirit as we live in community.
Oh, we need to don’t we Kath? Listen so closely to everything….
You may feel it needs refinement but I found it refreshing and totally on point. I feel this is an excellent take on the reminder that we cannot possibly know just by looking what another is going through, struggling with, or rejoicing about.
we can’t, that’s very much for certain. 🙂