Within the Jesus Effect

What will be the net
positive effect

each lifetime?

Adding all our positive attributes,
correctly applied

Towards a real problem for another,
divided by the problems

we may have caused
by our pettiness  

Considering the sum of all people’s attitudes?

With calculated risks, errors we may have missed

becoming our judgement day, week, month Year.

In an hour’s time will a world prayer be helpful,

If that is what it takes to redeem value
for our collective souls?  

Or is this illusory displacement
As water and a straw
(Calculate real Jesus Effect/
Compensating for ego inflation)

Where there is hope there is room
for a brief echo in reflection

Even through the worst of times
The darkest hours

which may not yet have come

 But we can dream there are others
who may value what we do as we do in life.

In the tides of man As particles of sand.
Washed by waves may come and go.

Still, the ocean remains life all its own
Fed by the rivers and rain kissed by the sun…

And shooting stardust falling from above
Exploding softly through the endless night

As waves reflecting love back to the stars.
As they move on, much as they have before

More than a handful of sun years in revolution
Around the greater Universe …

beyond this

Extending its aura almost forever.
Speaking to an earth born soul...

As if to a jellyfish
And who are we to argue

what came first...

We, who have the power
 to create a song

About whoever it is
we want to be,

or...

Who we think we are? When, in reality...
We are just like the morning dew

Appearing for a moment condensation
from the mist of days before.

Choosing between coming together
of necessity threatened by insurmountable odds

Basking together in our smiles
or suffering in our transgressions
against one another

Never giving/taking a moment to reconcile
For forgiveness to grow into understanding

Holding grudges beyond sanity,
Celebrating man's inhumanity, against man

Will we never understand why this Jesus came
Giving a touch of love …a time and space

Somewhere in our hearts and minds
A place we may only find when we do the math

And realize there is an answer
But the only way to find it

is To take hold of perspective
from one another’s minds

And walk together for awhile

Skipping a stone across the universe
Laughing in the rain... Just having fun

to realize, before all this talk of
who is or is not right.

We were once all free to decide
how to live the way we want ourselves to be

without making excuses
Casting the shadows of blame

For our own misfortunes on one another...
So here we are, again casting rainbows into the sky

Looking beyond our time for the answers this day.
Following the footsteps in the sand

Only show us from where we came
Where we are going depends upon

What is most important to our well being
Those of us sane enough, to realize

What we can do with what remains that's gravity...
Our natural magnetism attracts and repels us

From others of opposite polarity.

Isn't it remarkable that good and evil?
Seem to work that way

So, let us put our petty jealousies aside
Reconsider (or pray/earnestly)

Get on our horses and ride
or just walk and talk.

Taking our time To get to know
Who it is that we are?

As neighbor souls

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