Brian Johnston Poet Quatrain

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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!

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

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Darren White April 27, 2017 at 8:38 AM The first two lines of your poem say it all Brian: "Theologians all euthanize miracle’s glow, // Like a child might dehydrate and pin butterflies," What a great poem, and I completely agree. Brian Johnston April 27, 2017 at 1:58 PM So glad you like it Darren! The first two lines are surely a gift from God! :-)

Arthur Vaso April 26, 2017 at 11:16 PM LOL Those that worshiped the sun said the same thing. You write of something you know so little. Ironic that my butterflies know more than you! Brian Johnston April 27, 2017 at 2:34 AM And children are singled out by Christ as examples of what we all should aspire to Arthur. Indeed I aspire to know as little as possible. Thanks for your support! :-) Question though, how do butterlies belong to you?