Amputated Vision

I read with great interest the latest Church Herald and appreciated the energies and efforts displayed to further the discussion of Mission and Missional. Perhaps just the the dialogue takes us further than we have ever gone. For my part, having come from Mega-Church program models, to a very front line opportunity, I have changed my whole view. Where I once adhered to the "build it, and they will come" model, I think I have more appreciation now for the world as it views faith through an...

Amputated vision

Amputated vision brought

on crippled limbs

that drag in spastic pace

to see the best in you.

And that is how I base

my stunted view

imbedded in a heart

without the means to care.

And you hope I know

or somehow understand

because I nod or

maybe even smile.

Don't take my absent voice

to mean that I agree

because I can't, and won't

I haven't and didn't!

Like a cow that sees

a train go by

I hear the noise and

tremble at the sight...

But I might, someday

if you'll slow down and

come to me with love

and uncommon patience.

Then, my prosthetic sight

and transplanted heart

might share your love

with someone else!

otherwise, I'm gone...