The Word in Focus with Dr Larry Taylor

And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” (Revelation 21:5a)

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History swirls in eddies

Trapped by violence and greed.

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Thoughts tenderly swaying in a

Melancholy northerly breeze of

Unadorned empathy for a

Flock now ravaged, broken, bleeding

Scattered and dying on the hillsides, 

Torn by a wolf pack, more for sport, 

Apparently, then sustenance.

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Bereaved mother; young man dying in

The arms of his husband; she was crushed

By a texting driver, while the elderly LTC resident

Slips, falls, and shatters old bones; bombs

Explode, children’s hospital collapses as

Confederate battle flags and swastikas wave

Proudly over mass graves of the murdered unknown.

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Trees and sea grass undulate in winds and currents

Light twinkles from stars long dead

An atom spins clockwise, its mate, counterclockwise

All creation joins the cosmic dance

Sacred chanupa emits whiffs of harmony 

As the white buffalo speaks omens 

She is Wakan here to nurse dying Gaia

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Her heart is pure, void of arrière-pensée

See her now walk on clouds of vaporish 

Compassion, shapeshifting, tree and bison,

Whale and octopus, mountain and dale,

Indian paintbrush and saguaro cactus,

Wind and light, fire and ice,

She is you. She is me. She is Anima.

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Now hear the wail and capture the tears of

The married widow, the middle-aged infant,

The broken old man, and the forest inferno.

Rachel weeps for her children, refusing comfort.

The prophet prays to die; the bereft coyote howls,

A loss of kinsmen, sun for sorrow hiding its face

All is still. All is quiet.

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Eerie calm before the tempest …

Explodes, erupts into gale-force winds,

Sheets of icy rain, thunder, lightning,

Funnel clouds dip to earth, debris scatters,

Masts snap, radio towers tumble

Ships sink, visions clash.

Of course they blame the Jews.

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Baron wasteland swept clean;

Smoldering embers, distinctive odor,

Lone golden eagle soars, circles.

A fawn looks on pensively.

Tiny shoots of green push through

Cinders, stretching sunward …

Atop a hill, a bull bison surveys.

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Zephyr and chinook join hands and skip

Ruach breathes life across the land

Wildflowers bloom, pollinators buzz

Flitting from blossom to blossom

Antelope and mule deer graze until

Displaced by elk and moose, a Grizzly 

Bear tai-chi walks contemplatively

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The lame walk, the blind see

The deaf hear, the weak are strong.

A soft rumble and the dead live

Supernovas leap to life, intent on

Manufacturing the very elements of

New generations that know the meaning of

Love