All Saints (2)

(note: the pictures are a portion of the basement wall in my parents house where my father painted on the family tree in his last years, I think of it as a list of saints, some with dirty hands and messy basements, but saints non the less)

Matthew 5:1-12

In a world that is often cruel
I find myself on the outs

Not making the buck
(Blessed are you)
not having the things
I am told I must have
To be me
(Blessed are you)
and in the fast flowing lanes of this world
I am often in the slow lane
Stopping occasionally to smell the flowers
And see the creation
God had made
(Blessed are you)
and when the bus stops
and I never get the good seat
because I am helping someone who is having trouble
with old age
or weak limbs
I wonder at those who do
(Blessed are you)
---- and Christ said
---- let the little children come onto me
---- and forbid them not
---- for to such belongs the Kingdom of God
(Blessed are you)