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Going through life<\/strong>
\nVarious docks said<\/strong>
\nYou are just<\/strong>
\nGoing through a phrase<\/strong>
\nAnd heeling<\/strong>
\nWood be<\/strong>
\nYores soon<\/strong>
\nEnough<\/strong>
\nFinally cured<\/strong>
\nOf awe<\/strong>
\nThat is<\/strong>
\nGreen<\/strong>
\nWith envy<\/strong>
\nOf what might<\/strong>
\nPassably be<\/strong>
\nMore of the sane<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is about the insanity of sanity.\u00a0 This has less to do with the faults of the status quo — though they are myriad — than it does coming alive, infectiously alive, in a living world.\u00a0 Security, in conventional wisdom, is sought through well-worn, predictable means.\u00a0 Such security is based on a knowledge of order present in the world.\u00a0 This is simply the triangulation of scientific facts, providing a coherent framework from which to navigate our lives. Yeah, go science!\u00a0 Well, order is knot the whole of life.\u00a0 Disorder is necessary for possibility, any veering from a determined course.\u00a0 Order as the hole of life negates freedom, creation, and certainly most of the fun.\u00a0 Of course, the point is not to create disorder, an abundance of that already exists, the point is to bring to life — that is, create — new order, more conducive and congruent with the higher and deeper orders present in creation.\u00a0 This perpetual creation and recycling is sharing in the experience of what it’s like to be God, perhaps God’s greatest gift.\u00a0 We are meant to play with creation, as God’s children, not be some play set for God or other humans to manipulate to their own — and our — constipated end.\u00a0 Our creation is not a disorder that needs to be cured, it need only respect life by infectiously creating more life.\u00a0 Such disorder is not a threat to the well-ordered physical world.\u00a0 However, such disorder is a metaphysical dis-ease with existence being reduced and lived (sic) out in simply a mechanical weigh.\u00a0 In truth, such disorder is a higher order that cannot be reduced to mere mechanics, lifting up the hood and fixing it.\u00a0 Such disorder is the infectious need to sail life’s oceans.\u00a0 Of course, this is vastly aided by abundant knowledge of shipbuilding, navigation, etc.\u00a0 Even greater though, it requires a love of discovery, a love of the feel of the ocean’s wind and spray in your face, and the courage to risk the vagaries of the wild, the powerful, and the unknown.\u00a0 While boldly and infectiously sailing life’s oceans may strike many as much less secure than, say, building ships for others, I strongly suspect that one of God’s deepest desires for us is to freely be the captains of our own lives.\u00a0 However exquisitely we may craft tools for others, God does not desire that we simply be tools for others — that would deny God’s exquisite craftsmanship.\u00a0 God is a crafty one, peering behind the veil of indeterminacy, which many consider a disorder itself.\u00a0 This thorniness behind creation results in much anguish and pain, the inescapable fareness of a free life.\u00a0 The thorny crown atop God’s craftiness is unparalleled, except perhaps among humans, made in God’s image, where an irrepressible willingness to pain the prize is billed in.\u00a0 May your inborn desire to create be guided by an abiding respect for life and it’s infectious nature seeking know cure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going through life Various docks said You are just Going through a phrase And heeling Wood be Yores soon Enough Finally cured Of awe That is Green With envy Of what might Passably be More of the sane This poem … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[503,294,519,229,198,574,507,428,539,115,608,65,579,495,359,273,379,594,658,94,424,110,491,489,480,502,260,390,659,406,113,421,549,389,380],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-abundance","tag-awe","tag-children","tag-conventional-wisdom","tag-courage","tag-creation","tag-envy","tag-experience","tag-facts","tag-freedom","tag-gift","tag-god","tag-image","tag-insanity","tag-life","tag-love","tag-nature","tag-play","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-possibility","tag-power","tag-present","tag-rage","tag-recycling","tag-respect","tag-risk","tag-science","tag-security","tag-status","tag-status-quo","tag-truth","tag-willingness","tag-wisdom","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: More of the Sane | Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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