We are all kin. What kin you due?<\/p>\n
The Nothing Special — Owed to What Kin You Do<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n They took This poem is loosely inspired by Matthew 43-48:<\/p>\n \u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.\u2019 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?\u00a0 And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Be mature, therefore, as your heavenly Father is mature.<\/em><\/p>\n The word “mature” in the last verse is typically translated as “perfect.” Years a go I heard that a more accurate translation was “mature.” This struck me as more accessible. Plus, I am a recovering perfectionist — the shadow side of my unrepentant idealism. The point is to grow “up” not mirrorly follow the herd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We are all kin. What kin you due? The Nothing Special — Owed to What Kin You Do They took Care of their own The giving Nothing special Of average Joe’s Every wear In thin A regular At that owed … Continue reading
\nCare of their own
\nThe giving
\nNothing special
\nOf average Joe’s
\nEvery wear
\nIn thin
\nA regular
\nAt that owed time religion
\nMore likely to court
\nThan lovely woo who
\nAmor a bout
\nProbable cause
\nThen what
\nPossibly kin
\nDo
\nThat in suffer Abel brood
\nMy brothers, a keeper?!
\nWhat are we
\nAs kin
\nAt best
\nAmor much like
\nKin dread spirits
\nMything the point of awe
\nRacing to our clan
\nWhen effaced
\nWith the holy uncompelling
\nAs prey for your enemies
\nAs fodder forgives them
\nFore they know knot
\nWhat they due
\nAmor
\nThen some Dad joke
\nI’m telling!
\nAs sum propriety formula
\nOf pleas
\nAnd thank yous
\nPassably
\nNot the most
\nMature
\nButt have to
\nDo
\nRather entreating us
\nTo entertain being
\nAs full groan
\nAs your father in heaven
\nSow wanting
\nJust us to be
\nAwe you kin be<\/p>\n