complicit

“everyone who asks receives…everyone who searches finds…

everyone who knocks, the door will be open”

                                                                                                 Luke 11:10

complicit                                                                                                     Erling Shultz, July 2019

we were made in and for deity connection,

   made skilled and able for communication,

      made ready to talk and listen toward relation;

   yet we ask,

      “Lord, teach me to pray.”

what are the words that will garner attention?

what is the stance that assists the reception?

what is the attitude that insures realization?

Jesus obliges

      with human simplicity,

   but still I wonder,

       do we grasp the complicity?

‘cause at times what I hear,

      or at least what I sense, is a

   give me…forgive me…lead me…save me;

the us is altered to a me,

      or at best a we,

   a we that is limited to those like me;

      who look and think and attend…

          and recite just like me;

   a we that in essence and purpose…me

other times when we feel altruistic

      what I sense and what I hear, is a

   give them…forgive them…lead them…save them;

it feels good to include the other,

   but the them is, in the end, a they

      that excludes the we, which is me;

   we have not risked our static indifference

      and maintained proper cultural distance

too often (as if the quantity matters)

   we mess with the complicit connection

      to shape the creation communication;

   maybe that’s why

      Jesus insists

         this prayer persistence;

      someday, somewhere, some how

         we’ll get the us implications

            with enough recitations

the us

   reminds of the original deity connection

      toward creation completion

the us

   is inseparable, interwoven, entwined,

      deletes the they(s) and them(s),

         most certainly the we(s) and me(s)

the us

      (when repeated with proper intonation)

   makes all complicit

      in Kingdom intentions

meet us…mesh us…unite us…push us

sense us…fill us…gift us…use us

birth us…grow us…call us…send us

      build us to be us for us and to us

                                                   amen