to whom shall we speak respectful words
and to whom shall we promise to honor and respect
Who Oh Lord other than you
You
Oh Lord command our attentionYou call us to look to the heavens
You prompt us to look beyond ourselves
We are nothing but who we are
we are not more than what we are supposed to be
humans we are humans we will be
and when we die we will die as humans
for principles for righteousness
for fairness equity legitimacy to all of Your people
We in our humaning at times want
another human like us to lead us
we know that in closeness there can be trust
we assume that some like us and different from us can lead us
For some of us in our humaning
we want the leader to speak like us think like us live like us
lead how we would live in our darkest places
and other such ideas of unspeakable nonsense
For
some of the rest of us in our humaning
we
want a leader who inspires provokes encourages all manner of good like kindness generosity service
and other such ideas of speakable decency
We yearn for one who will lead
since we cannot to go into arenas
to which we are not invited for him or her
to represent truth about us speak for us not to speak like us
In our better selves as we human upon this earth
we may imagine ourselves humaning like him
we are caught up in our shame dehumanizing other humans we
laugh or cry or rain shame upon us
we have done or thought the same
At
other times we cringe knowing
he
demeans others who are human like us would prompt rage and anger were
he or anyone else to treat us with similar words phrase tones sentences
we image ourselves humaning like him and
we rise and say glory hallelujah thank you
a reflection of our ideals as we yearn to be and
in amazement we stand as his and hers and their
humaning rise above the noise the din the insanity of a world gone mad
behave like which human prompts internal conflicts
as he speaks arouses behaves conducts the affairs on behalf
of those of us who cannot be there but can be only here
I
reflect upon the people of Israel
wanted
a king God gave with a warning careful what you askthe kings did their kinging badly or well
David inspired with his devotion dancing writing singing playing
with his wisdom and knowledge and skills of building leading
Ahab and Ahaziah inspired fear hide shrink mind our own business
before you with joy mercy righteousness
leave behind our days of fear anger worry dread embarrassment
Bring
again our truer better righteous selves as a people country
to inspire prompt better higher
nobler things characteristicstreatment of people like different same not so same
people and planet we call home for others to call home
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