Consider This
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 10:33 am
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my personal opinion and beliefs and in no way meant to be offensive to anyone.
Consider This Wendy Seddon © October 2015
Tell me, is your world devoid of empathy and care,
with ignorance and selfishness and chaos everywhere?
Without a thought to how a little seed can sprout and grow,
or how a heart can flutter in a tiny embryo.
And does your independence mean you’re cold to other’s needs,
oblivious to consequence or where your conscience leads?
The wall you’ve built around yourself too high to see above,
or let in light or colour, even tenderness or love.
Or do you even realise the state in which you dwell,
and do you live without a thought of Heaven or of Hell?
Have you become the product of a world where Faith’s devoid,
the love of a creator God has never been deployed?
You may believe you’re strong enough to face all things alone,
no matter what you do with life there’s no need to atone.
You’re told that everything on Earth just happened into place
from supersonic accidents somewhere in deepest space.
Evolution is a miracle, conceived not born of chance,
designed and set upon its course for mankind to advance.
To be entrusted with the care of all the living things,
the things with scales or fur or skin or shell or leaf or wings.
You say that if there was a God and met Him face to face
you’d berate Him for audaciously creating such a place.
A place where children suffer and then die before they live,
a culture which encourages to take and never give.
A place where innocence is lost through cruelty and strife,
where malice breeds profusely and then infiltrates all life.
Where evil seems to dominate and righteousness is spurned,
you wonder why a loving God could be so unconcerned.
You like the safe position of a pessimistic view
where everything’s explainable and nothing puzzles you.
You’re far too smart to be deceived by things you cannot touch,
assign all things miraculous to fantasy and such.
A narrow mind does not condemn your soul to anarchy,
indifference is not a pass to writhe eternally.
Your soul is safe from fire and strife if spiteful thoughts abound
and Hell will not pursue you if intolerance is found.
Consider though a different view and listen to my voice
there is another way to think but still a daring choice -
Consider there’s a vicious war which rages all around,
where evil assaults goodness and there is no common ground.
Where goodness fights encumbered by your lack of partnership
and evil is empowered as you judge with spiteful quip.
The prince of all that’s ugly has so cunningly conceived
a world where he is so ignored and fully disbelieved.
He arms you with indifference so gains the upper hand,
while all the time the battles rage but you don’t take a stand
You do not fight for goodness but you note well its demise,
you’ll not commit to faith and hope but mourn it when it dies.
You hide within your humanness, your intellect resists
the notion of a noble plan, that God even exists.
The beast will reign if you’ve not fought him every way you could,
thus sanctioning his quest to go on thwarting all that’s good
Believe in a combatant God who fights for you with love
who’ll lay his life down just for you when push evolves to shove.
I can’t condone your view of Earth as something to debase
I will not live my life without benevolence or grace.
Take a moment, look around with clear unbiased eyes,
and marvel at the beauty so arrayed beneath the skies.
There’s mercy and there’s grace and hope and beauty, all divine,
while still the war continues on for your sake and for mine.
For God’s sake stand and fight the one who’d strangle decency
instead of blaming some-one whom you just refuse to see.
Consider This Wendy Seddon © October 2015
Tell me, is your world devoid of empathy and care,
with ignorance and selfishness and chaos everywhere?
Without a thought to how a little seed can sprout and grow,
or how a heart can flutter in a tiny embryo.
And does your independence mean you’re cold to other’s needs,
oblivious to consequence or where your conscience leads?
The wall you’ve built around yourself too high to see above,
or let in light or colour, even tenderness or love.
Or do you even realise the state in which you dwell,
and do you live without a thought of Heaven or of Hell?
Have you become the product of a world where Faith’s devoid,
the love of a creator God has never been deployed?
You may believe you’re strong enough to face all things alone,
no matter what you do with life there’s no need to atone.
You’re told that everything on Earth just happened into place
from supersonic accidents somewhere in deepest space.
Evolution is a miracle, conceived not born of chance,
designed and set upon its course for mankind to advance.
To be entrusted with the care of all the living things,
the things with scales or fur or skin or shell or leaf or wings.
You say that if there was a God and met Him face to face
you’d berate Him for audaciously creating such a place.
A place where children suffer and then die before they live,
a culture which encourages to take and never give.
A place where innocence is lost through cruelty and strife,
where malice breeds profusely and then infiltrates all life.
Where evil seems to dominate and righteousness is spurned,
you wonder why a loving God could be so unconcerned.
You like the safe position of a pessimistic view
where everything’s explainable and nothing puzzles you.
You’re far too smart to be deceived by things you cannot touch,
assign all things miraculous to fantasy and such.
A narrow mind does not condemn your soul to anarchy,
indifference is not a pass to writhe eternally.
Your soul is safe from fire and strife if spiteful thoughts abound
and Hell will not pursue you if intolerance is found.
Consider though a different view and listen to my voice
there is another way to think but still a daring choice -
Consider there’s a vicious war which rages all around,
where evil assaults goodness and there is no common ground.
Where goodness fights encumbered by your lack of partnership
and evil is empowered as you judge with spiteful quip.
The prince of all that’s ugly has so cunningly conceived
a world where he is so ignored and fully disbelieved.
He arms you with indifference so gains the upper hand,
while all the time the battles rage but you don’t take a stand
You do not fight for goodness but you note well its demise,
you’ll not commit to faith and hope but mourn it when it dies.
You hide within your humanness, your intellect resists
the notion of a noble plan, that God even exists.
The beast will reign if you’ve not fought him every way you could,
thus sanctioning his quest to go on thwarting all that’s good
Believe in a combatant God who fights for you with love
who’ll lay his life down just for you when push evolves to shove.
I can’t condone your view of Earth as something to debase
I will not live my life without benevolence or grace.
Take a moment, look around with clear unbiased eyes,
and marvel at the beauty so arrayed beneath the skies.
There’s mercy and there’s grace and hope and beauty, all divine,
while still the war continues on for your sake and for mine.
For God’s sake stand and fight the one who’d strangle decency
instead of blaming some-one whom you just refuse to see.