Poem for 25th Sunday after Pentecost Mark 13:1-8

Always striving

always searching for a way

to know

to have the inside track

searching for that clue

thinking secretly

we should have looked just on more way

then we would know

searching the heavens

and the scriptures for a sign

some sign

any sign

to let us know

to give us some feeling of being in control

to say to God

and our fellow travelers

I Know

I don’t really need you

because in the end

I Know!

The time will come

and even then we will not know

even then there will be enough doubt

to turn our eyes from ourselves

to the God who made us

and saves us

in that time we fear most.