{"id":8667,"date":"2025-11-09T03:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2025-11-10T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:16:33","slug":"dealt-gods-hand-owed-to-matthew-625-34-do-not-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/09\/dealt-gods-hand-owed-to-matthew-625-34-do-not-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Dealt God\u2019s Hand \u2013 Owed to Matthew 6:25-34 [Do not worry]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do not worry — look more closely…<\/p>\n

Dealt God\u2019s Hand \u2013 Owed to Matthew 6:25-34 [Do not worry]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Toward the end
\nAs my life plays
\nOut
\nI might have been
\nStrung long
\nAs some dare quest in
\nSew what
\nThread bear
\nWeep knot
\nAs should upon
\nBye life
\nYou find me
\nIn a pile of crap
\nSeamingly impenetrable
\nKeep
\nLooking
\nFor the adamantine soul
\nWith butt the finger
\nPrints of my life
\nPointed words pointing
\nA mist
\nTo know a veil
\nRiding forever
\nA tsunami of love
\nFearlessly serfing
\nIn cryptic happiness
\nAwe ways in trouble
\nNot worrying
\nWhat?!
\nI ware?!
\nIn the hands of
\nThe Great Clotheser
\nTaking care
\nOf tomorrow
\nA prayer daily bred
\nNever offering stone
\nAn open heart broken
\nTendering perpetual communion<\/p>\n

NOTE: The last lines include an allusion to Matthew 7:9,11 — \u201cWhich of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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