{"id":3372,"date":"2020-01-28T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=3372"},"modified":"2020-01-29T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:31:49","slug":"poem-gods-lazy-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/poem-gods-lazy-as\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: God\u2019s Lazy As"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>God\u2019s Lazy As<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for nudging me<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>From oblivion<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>In too existence<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A billion years<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Of Sundays<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ought too due<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Accept fore sustaining me<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Every nanosecond<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>What have you<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Done form me<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lately<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I find a deep source of gratitude in that I won the existence lottery. Whatever complaints I may have about the nature of reality and my life seem petty when compared to the exquisite privilege of simply being alive. When I experience this perspective, I can tap into an unfathomably huge realm that I often take for granted &#8212; or, if you think that life is just complicated dirt: taken for granite. When I add to this perspective the notion that my sustained existence is also inexplicably miraculous, I can update my gratitude to the current moment, any given moment, any moment taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/Buttons\/To-love-another-person-is-to-see-the-face-of-God-Victor-Hugo-Les-Miserables-quote-SPIRITUAL-BUTTON.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/Religious-Spiritual\/To-love-another-person-is-to-see-the-face-of-God-Victor-Hugo-Les-Miserables-quote.gif\" alt=\"To love another person is to see the face of God. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables quote\" width=\"172\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>The title of this poem, <em>God&#8217;s Lazy As<\/em>, is a tip of the hat to the low-key role that God plays in awe of this. If this mystery of God seeming to hide out appears too baffling, or even insolvable, I find it helpful to consider the Victor Hugo quote from <em>Les Miserables<\/em>, &#8220;To love another person is to see the face of God.&#8221; This is the kind of in-your-face God that I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s Lazy As Thanks for nudging me From oblivion In too existence A billion years Of Sundays Ought too due Accept fore sustaining me Every nanosecond What have you Done form me Lately I find a deep source of gratitude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/28\/poem-gods-lazy-as\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[294,428,65,255,505,359,273,417,379,354,658,94,513,601,31,30],"class_list":["post-3372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-awe","tag-experience","tag-god","tag-gratitude","tag-lazy","tag-life","tag-love","tag-mystery","tag-nature","tag-perspective","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-privilege","tag-reality","tag-religious","tag-spiritual"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>POEM: God\u2019s Lazy As | Poems | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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