Ph: Faith: Euthanizing Miracles Poem by Brian Johnston
Ph: Faith: Euthanizing Miracles
Theologians all euthanize miracle's glow,
Like a child might dehydrate and pin butterflies,
Jaundiced eye longs to render them all party tricks,
Puts the best under glass just to marginalize!
Shouldn't miracle God sends then serve greater cause
Might this not be a subject worth treating in kind?
If we search our Earth's history, thousands of years,
Won't necessity lead us at last to God's mind?
There are God taunting voices that cry, 'Bible's fake!
Written after the fact! Accounts pulled from the air! '
But where poetry lives, how can life be alone?
With Love's colors revealed, never naked and bare!
Yes, verse fleshes life out! Bone is not all that soft!
And the breath of life gives a new heartbeat to time,
Rhythms dancing, form floating, white light, no despair,
For God lives down the track in the tower of rhyme!
Explanations all languish if god is true GOD,
Even scientists fall back on 'models of truth! '
Serve Him still, but in Love, not to earn your reward,
Trust His Grace and have faith in soul's eternal youth.
Brian Johnston
April 26,2017
Poet's Notes:
This poem is not meant to attack professional Theologians as a group but mildly suggests that Christianity is more about 'faith' than understanding the mind of God. Truly we are all Theologians to some extent, even Atheists, and Agnostics. Claiming to know the mind of God is heresy I'm guessing!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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the part of this comment below the double line(s) will be the note i just sent to the author. but first, here are some new words from me: Wow. somehow i think i missed the rhyme scheme altogether the first 3 times i read this poem. VERY NICE. i guess i was too busy trying to find typos, without any REAL success! : ( and i've now read the Poet's Notes. i always appreciate those, though i don't always understand them or think they are useful. hee-hee. i shall tack BJ's PN to the poem in the May showcase; no extra charge. i shall even rate the poem, which i rarely do, except for by my words and by sometimes using for a showcase or by putting in MPL (as a 'favorite'-for-some-reason' poem on PH) . my rating: [for poetry, not necessary for 'truth']...............a 10! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ok, Brian, i've reread this on this fine Saturday morning, without trying to 'over-read'/analyze the poem. it is (quite) well-written, though i would never write it, of course. i don't believe there are any typos! i might insert a little word here or there to make the English a little easier for me to follow, but............... i won't.. ;) to MyPoemList AND into May 2017's showcase it shall soon go. i've never been one or studied 'theologians', so i don't know what they do. are you saying they do somethin' 'bad'? are they downgrading 'miracles'? i performed a minor miracle this week: i resisted the ice cream isle in the grocery store! or is it aisle? ? yes, i think 'aisle'. another minor miracle: i caught my error! but they sound the same! ! ! some favorite lines: 'Theologians all euthanize miracle’s glow, Like a child might dehydrate and pin butterflies'...........i used to (as a boy) pin butterflies and beetles etc ........................i tried doing it to the family dog once, but i forgot to euthanize it first! i still have the scars. and: 'There are God taunting voices that cry, “Bible’s fake! Written after the fact! Accounts pulled from the air! ” But where poetry lives, how can life be alone? '...............well, yes. but it does NOT mean there is 'God'. silly! .............................................................however, it does 'make for'/form an interesting thought. Thanks. bri :)
There are theologians who try hard not to deny the miracles of Christ happened Bri, but simply argue that they were not miracles at all. My favorite of these is that master of festivities, at the wedding where Christ turned barrels of water into wonderful tasting wine, was too drunk to know that it wasn't water! Ha! And yes almost anything you say about a miracle tends to degrade it. And though you are correct to point out that the fact that poetry lives does not prove that God exists, it is one of many things in life (like the fact that Science helps man to understand nature) that suggests that if God does exist He/She/It at least seems to be favorably disposed to mankind. At least I can imagine a creation that is simply magical and beyond man's understanding altogether, whereas the creation we share seems to go out of its way to honor the biblical pronouncement of a 'Loving' God? Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you! Ha!