SAINTHOOD - POEM IDEA Saints are made, like trees, by God alone
not set aside by the votes of papal men.
Saints are those who, oft by constant prod,
are doubly endowed with Soul, and then
sent among us all to fulfill God's unerring Will.
In special, urgent times of human need
when all for help and guidance beg and plead;
when God provides as suits the victims basic want.
Saints grant heed. They stay as spaces set apart.
Saints are human vessels laid aside to serve as
repositories each of God's own Love
with special dispensation for all - tired and tempered by life's
searing heat - seeking surcease in changing sorrow into joy.. .and etc.....
I find it awkward when men, together, set about naming a person to be a "saint".
They are always, I feel, a bit late. It is my feeling that an individual man or woman who has achieved certain goal in his or her lifetime, is already a saint in the mind of our Maker. The namers are just beginning to realize what has evident, had they looked for some time.
The Pope of the Roman Catholic Church has died, and Man is led to call a series of conclaves to designate the man as becoming a "saint." John Paul lived a life of selfless sainthood. Children of God all over the world received ble ss ings from his being what he was to his closest followers. Many people of different faiths were benefited by simply being what he was, receiving blessings from his presence. By his way of living John Paul lived as a saint. Different, deftly interwoven threads of his love and guidance are there to be seen and cherished in his relations to others.
The total concept of sainthood is exemplified in the sweeping glory of the principles by which he lived and which he held high so that all mankind may see and known them as well. It is something that is best said in poetic with its binding restraints and special demands for exactness. Some day ahead I may be able to re-fashion those opening lines to tell the "why" of it all when it comes to the condition of having an angelic presence among us at times.
A.L.M August 1, 2005 [c385 wds]
