Blackboard Desert
Men march to the blackboards
As if they were the head of the class
And with nervous hands and dead white chalk
They squeak with rules of grammar
Of science
Of ethics
And, since God is alive,
Why isn't there room
On the board?
But children who've accepted Him,
Sit still in their chairs
And turn to the windows
As their desked minds dream away
The scribbled marks
They envision a land where chalk is mixed
With concrete pilings…to build
And solid sidewalks…to hold
Armed with warm, wet cloths
They move gentle hands
Across the blackboards
And across their vast inner slates
They erase what they cannot read
Finding Jesus, alive
In an unscribbled mist
Beneath
This poem speaks of God under all the man-made structures. It also speaks of children, or those who have not felt the weight of the world on their shoulders, realizing this God of ours whose existence sometimes seems so faint, so far away, so cold and distant, is in fact, very real and very much in love with us. This view of God as distant and uninvolved is very predominant in this world. It is not the truth, however. It is a lie, perpetuated by Satan (the king of lies). To know God, we have to first have faith. Why? Because it is required by God's children to know something first before it becomes true. You shall know the truth THEN you shall be set free. This is the way God created us. The truth of God's reality was always true, we just didn't know it. If you are knowing the truth as the world defines it, you are likely feeling or will feel defeated and dejected. Is this the freeing truth Jesus was speaking of knowing? Jesus does not offer imprisoning truth. That is the world's offering. First we must know the right truth, God's truth, and we must be committed to this truth day in and day out. This is not brainwashing. It is brain cleansing. Brainwashing occurs when we buy into all the facts the world would throw at us that point to the appearances of evil and death and depression.
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