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[title] => ETERNAL REST
[time] => 2003-11-01 12:23:30
[hometext] => Our departed loved ones are active on behalf of us!
[bodytext] =>  We pray: “Good Lord give them Eternal Rest!” And ask not what our loved ones would like best; If resting is the thing they want or not,- We thus preempt their wish and that of God. I think Our Father is a Dynamo, But theologians of some time ago, Considered that an endless inert rest Is what departed souls deem to be best. Without some change in stature or increase, They contemplate in passiveness and freeze, Transfixed in states of immobility And apathy through all eternity. It seems this fixed immobility is not Participation in the life of God, But fullness, in continuous increase Of fullness ever growing - not a freeze. The Living One would hate paralysis Amidst His children and abhor that freeze For God is dynamo and can’t be pleased With fullness that can’t be yet more increased Increase and growth surprise and wonderment Would go along with bliss and ravishment; What disappointment for the young would be Duration fixed - and its monotony! If youth holds sway in heaven, then the Lord Might see some of His children somewhat bored, For youth holds dear zest and mobility, And find too flat an eternullity. And might prefer to speedily retire To low realms where there still lives “Desire”,- Desire’s increase,- the well-known element Of which great mystics speak and comprehend. Am I too bold? - maybe -but Charles Peguy, Our literature’s Bach,- agrees with me, And in his splendid writings does assert: “Departed souls are active and alert!” And St. Teresa said:” My heaven’s bliss It will consist in work for your increase; And all my heaven’s happiness will be To work and pray for you incessantly!” The Lord, the boundless source of all that is, The bubbling spring of life demands increase May torrent -like with thundering cascade Overwhelm some theologians‘ “final state” Might give strong impulses to all of those That rest and are contented with repose And drive his Blessed Ones to leap and bound To seek for MORE upon His boundless ground. [comments] => 3 [counter] => 178 [topic] => 11 [informant] => Elizabeth_Dandy [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => ChristianPoetry )
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