Quest for Faith
By Ann Wright
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Quest for Faith - Ann Wright
FAITH
Faith is willingness to accept and treasure
Concepts that the mind can never measure.
Faith is believing without seeing,
But using sight to strengthen our believing.
Faith is not blind when facts are known,
But knows that we don’t live by facts alone.
This hopefulness called faith within us thrives
Not needing rhyme or reason to survive.
Faith is when our hope becomes conviction
That we can accept without restriction.
Faith takes a path no one has trod
But uses life’s experience to seek God.
* * *
GOD
Although each culture has its god(s),
To me they’re all the same –
Humanity’s quest for good –
Regardless of the name.
Around us is the living proof.
Such order and design
Throughout the universe is seen,
Each factor well-defined.
No freakish accident could cause
Such sweeping harmony.
There has to be a guiding light
Although we may not see.
This force gave each of us a gift –
The mind to comprehend
An abstract deity although
It lies beyond our ken.
And yet this self-same mind betrays
Our God’s reality.
Blinded by our world’s confines,
Obscurely do we see.
Imperfect in this perfect world,
Humanlike, we guess
At God’s true purpose for our kind.
Why were we so blessed?
I think each one of us sees God
Blurred by experience;
And yet we have the faith to build
A boundless confidence.
Confidence that God exists
Beyond our little earth.
Confidence that we will learn
The meaning of our worth.
And so through worship and our prayer
We seek to communicate
With our omnipresent God.
We seek to shape our fate.
A fate that only God defines
But gives us each free option.
Our final fate, though planned by God,
Is our own adoption.
* * *
WILL THE REAL GOD PLEASE STAND UP?
When my final breath is loosed, which God will I see?
God of love? Or God of wrath? Which one will it be?
The oldest verse portrays a God of jealousy and ire,
Whose fury chastened feeble man with water and with fire.
A God who tested faith and love, demanded sacrifice
Of earthly things that we loved most. No less would suffice.
The wrathful God tested Job, I hear a goodly man;
And Moses for a broken stone denied the Holy Land.
What anguish did Abram feel when told to kill his son?
Though the order was repealed, the hurt had still been done.
But God did not excuse himself from feeling kindred pain
When His Son pleaded for his life, pleaded – but in vain.
The loving God, despite his rage, still gave a second chance
To His creation, feeble man. It was not happenstance
That Eve and Adam bore a progeny that still survives.
Defiant disobedience did not cost them their lives.
Throughout the Book, His mercy shows to king and slave the same.
It was the heart He valued most, not power or the name.
So here am I. What am I to think about this God?
To my mortal mind, His actions seem at best quite odd.
At their worst, they seem capricious, fraught with frailty.
Yet I wonder could the pens of writers just like me
Bring interpretation to the facts they heard and saw,
Creating but a history instead of divine law?
Immutable God? Or does He change, adapting just as we?
Learning, growing, reacting to creation’s mysteries.
If we are in His image, then is He not in ours?
Emotion’s bonds constraining thought but not constraining power?
Or is it our emotion that limits what we