God's Plan
by
Anthony Lane Stahlhut
(Age: 47)
copyright 01-11-2008
Age Rating: 4 to 127
God has a plan
We don't understand
All that God must do
What we need
What to succeed
What happens to me and you
Faith's the power
Stand the hour
Each day we see the test
Pain and strife
Go with this life
Trust God knows whats best
We must believe
If we're to receive
What we need the most
Trust the one
Father, Son
And the Holy Ghost
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The only editorial suggestion which I can offer would be to capitalize, "son," if your reference is to the Trinity. Beyond that, your presentation was inspired by those beliefs within your own mind and heart which you feel to be right and true.
I don't sense the arrogance that is often present when someone writes religious verse. There are some things, after all, that are beyond us all, and that truly don't require explanation.
From a literary standpoint, as my eye and ear would have it, the quiet and gentle manner of your presentation and development don't require a loud, bombastic envisioning of angels and archangels, the eternal fight and struggle of Good against Evil, flailing of bleeding breasts, and hair shirt miseries while oath-bound to a vow of silence.
Faith is, after all, a rather personal matter--to be indulged in as one desires. Beyond all of that having been said, I suppose I could bring out my friend Omar to give us a rhyme or two, but that seems pointless and it might possibly be offensive.
So we'll stay with what you have offered, and offered it well, and receive our thanks for a work well done. ^^
Faith for some of us develops (grows the tallest) as a positive form of enlightenment, sometimes as a sad result from personal agony and despair. Sometimes people are born with it, sometimes they lose it in old age after many battles with the unseen forces that play havoc with well intentioned plans of the highest. Whomever we wish to classify them-they-he be? Faith moves huge obstacles us ordinary mainstream of the human variety would get stuck crossing over, with-out its constant nudge (sometimes comes as a push or a shove in my experience) as I know, you are fully aware of. In the jest of it...thank goodness faith chases after me as with-out it, I'd be wandering scared. Personally, I'd rather just be caught wandering and leave the scary stuff for the lines in my poetry.
Looking forward to reading more of your work. Hope my stuff doesn't scare you away. A friend on the planet.
You're right about the equal and opposite reaction you get from pushing! I kind of buried my response to your explanation in a recent poem with the unlikely title, "Sonnets From the Porch for Geese."
Don't read it too literally, though. The geese might just as easily be -- oh, I don't know -- people? Anyway, I feel bad about giving your poem only 1 star -- it's obviously much better than that since it's provoked an interesting dialogue; so here's 4 more!!!!
I wish I could convince you, but I have found that the more I push, The farther I move backward. Faith you have to get for yourself. What I wanted to say here is that we don't have control. We can work hard and pay attention. That will help us to prosper, but we don't know for how long! So live life as best as you can and have faith that there is a reason for what happens. Try to find the lesson and the good in all things. Anthony
As one who believes in divinity but not Divine Plans, I would like to see you rework this poem a little to try to explain The Plan. As it is, a better title might have been "Have Faith (There is a Plan)." Seriously, a poem's a great place to make the argument for faith, but the argument's got to be more than a cliche; you've got to convince me either intellectually or emotionally that you're right.
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