Dream Awakener

Pannonian poplar trees..:)

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We name you king, Lord, sovereign.
We trust you, except
sometimes we do not.
We take matters into our own hands.

We fashion power and authority and sovereignty;
enforced by law and bureaucracy and weapons,
we think to make ourselves safe.

And then learn staggeringly,
how insufficient is our product,
how thin is our law,
how ineffective is our bureaucracy,
how impotent our weapons.

We are driven back to you – your will,
your purpose,
your requirements:
care for the land
care for the neighbor
care for the future.

We name you king, Lord, sovereign -
so undemocratic!
and in naming become aware of your status
before you… loved, sent, summoned.
We pray in the name of loved, sent, summoned Jesus.

From Prayers of a Privileged People