tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12431227.post-1127907941321667972005-09-28T07:43:00.000-04:002005-10-21T17:40:37.726-04:00<p>We lose our weather and then it returns.<br />We do not see the stars in smoggy towns. <br />We do not feel the heat when air is cooled. <br />We live depending on what isn't seen.<br /><br />Turn off our power; we live helplessly. <br />Deprive us of our fuel and we can't move.<br /><br />The weather, when not friend, seems enemy. <br />We do not know the ends that we devise.<br /><br />Each year we claim to know the universe. <br />Each year things are revised, past theories shelved. <br />Our institutes and researches proceed, <br />Our faltering capacities stay frail.<br /><br />Abba does not control the weather's course. <br />Abba is life within, without, beyond.<br /><br />The weather is one of our tests of life. <br />How we respond will tell us who we are. <br />And this has always been the basic truth.<br /><br />The weather is one of our tests of life.<br />Which offers more protection, homes or caves?<br />The universe is given as a school. <br />And I keep saying, Ask! You shall receive!<br /><br />When Abba is rejected, failure rules. <br />We call our failures acts of god and grieve.<br /><br />The catalog of reasons is quite clear:<br />We do not use our minds as Noah did.<br />We do not act together mindfully.<br />We act to make up for passivity.<br />And then go back to lassitude and sleep.<br /><br />To have Abba at hand is mindfulness. <br />To have Abba always is working through. <br />To have Abba in touch is not to stray.<br />But our performance shows how much we lose.<br /><br />The universe we see is like a fan. <br />It can be closed or opened with one hand. <br />The one we call Abba, our closest friend, <br />Has aspects that we cannot comprehend.<br /><br />But we know more as we attend to life. <br />And those who know the most feel Abba's touch.<br /><br />We cannot prove existence beyond proof. <br />But we can know Abba with one small breath. <br />And if we see our lives as Abba's school,<br />We can face life. And challenge. Even death.<br /><br />What's worse? A sudden storm or human hate?<br />Say neither. Accept both. But not as fate.<br />Life is the force of learning. Life's a school.<br />And weather is a lesson to be learned.Stephen C. Rosenoreply@blogger.com