it could be your expectations are unrealistic Dec 31,2004[2025 edits] Maybe it’s because you don’t have a realistic notion of what God is, and what you can reasonably expect. Maybe God doesn’t do the kind of stuff you’ve been led to expect God does. Maybe the role of God in the Universe isn’t what you’ve …
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Another Morning After
Each morning wakingyou are less and lessin my first thoughtand shame is passinginto just embarrassmentand simple pain. Yet still my eye–with each flicker of a glanceof what I saw you inthat passes in the roador on the screenor in a passing thought–still shies away,seeks haven in any other thing. But there are so fewthat have …
AFTERMATH
The impassioned moment’s passed,The fight’s gone out of me;tolerance and hope set inwith a sighand by-and-bythis latest violence,outrage, assaultagainst the heart and soulwill pass–and leave me livingstilland still possessedof most of what I had; Life goes onsublime,absurd,expects the future stillmakes plansinvestsand wandersdown the middle courseagain somewhere betweenthe hopeless and the glad. Disappointmentgnaws away at faith. …
Aftermath
The impassioned moment’s passed,The fight’s gone out of me;tolerance and hope set inwith a sighand by-and-bythis latest violence,outrage, assault against the heart and soulwill pass–and leave me living still and still possessed of most of what I had; Life goes on sublime,absurd,expects the future stillmakes plans investsand wanders down the middle course again somewhere between the hopeless and the glad. Disappointment gnaws away at faith. Perhaps, because …
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