Dark

Outside Your house,
What passes for love
is greed, disguised.
Pride is more valued
than understanding.
The lives of innocents feed
the machinary of power.
Gentleness and grace
are sacrificed for
material and political gain.
Ears are closed off
to suffering and pain.
A hand stretched out
in supplication
is cut off at the wrist.

Kingly Works: A Meditation

For such a one as me, who wonders how You accomplish such overwhelming good from such seeming evil, You have offered a key to understanding of the way You choose to work. The concept is embodied in the word "redemption." It means to buy back what was lost. The price, no matter the cost, has been met. My right to the inheritance You have determined for me is infinitely secure in You. No violence can move me: Hatred has no power over me. I am free to emmulate You. I have been redeemed for Your use. This is how You choose to express Your omnipotence. It is why, no matter how extreme seems the pain, that YOU HAVE THE VICTORY and Your name is GLORIOUS, ALMIGHTY, VICTORIOUS.