Just Calling

Just calling to see if you’ve completed
   your pledge card for the annual giving campaign?
Just calling to see if you’d be willing to serve
   coffee and doughnuts after sunday service?
Just calling to see if you’d like to volunteer
   to cut the church lawn this summer?
Just calling to see if your sons
   are going to Bible [...]

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Telescope God

 
Telescope God
 
One end of a telescope
Makes things look big and close.
The other end small and far.
 
Like a little kid that hasn’t quite
Figured it out
We use both ends to look for God.
 
Large, loving, close,
—flip—
Small, murderous, distant.
 
In my old church
We read one passage
From the Old Testament
To vengeance
 
Then flipped the telescope
And read one passage
From the New Testament
To forgiveness.
 
Both [...]

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