Bill Grace Poems

Being almost television addiction free
Even the Conventions I limited
To the speeches of Obama and McCain
There is the exception of the Charlie Rose show
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The radio tells of rice price inflation
Rice price sounds nice
But belies the suffering of Filipino poor - others
And all systems that move with the underlying question:
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first surgery
Mom takes me from Dad
great teachers
Cold of Upstate New York
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Zigmund and Kimbol
Sounds like a law firm
In a sense they were.
They did not like me very much
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The institution of toast
Is not well understood
It being a common thing
In a world obsessed with novelty.
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I do not know why I loved her,
Perhaps some rare transmutation of eros
From my sixty years of frame to her eighty plus.
Perhaps that she truly needed that handicap
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WHAT IS NOETIC THEOLOGY AND WHY COULD THIS BE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION?

It is through the influence of Victor Frankl that the word 'noetic' has come to me. If Robert C. Leslie's interpretation is correct Frankl understands noetic to mean that which is spiritual but not religiously based. To many, perhaps of orthodox faith, this must appear to be an oxymoron but let me continue. I worked as a chaplain's assistant for my work.stduy job at a large teaching hospital during my seminary years. On a rare Suday off I attended a worship service at a nearby Fellowship of the Unitarian Universalist Association. It was a jazz concert being given as a memorial service for the daughter - who had died - of the musician who was playing. The sense of grief that poured out of the end of that father's saxaphone for his dead daughter is a vivid memory thirty five years later. There was no talk of Jesus or resurrection, and for that matter there was relatively little talk, but it was an unmistakeably spiritual experience that has stuck with me. I am convinced that there is a noetic spirituality that functions in the world for better or for worse.
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God grants to us a running refrig
It is the ice maker that is broken
Cost of repair too much.
My Puritan genes recoil
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In fourth grade Grandma Grace gave me
What theologian Ellul would call
The primary symbol of modern man
A watch currently succeeded by the cell phone
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