Wednesday, January 6, 2021

LET ME EXCEL IN PEACE

 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the kingʼs successor do than what has already been done? ~ Ecclesiastes 2:12

Wisdom, madness and folly —
a cornucopia of possibilities.
Like a president worried about his legacy.
And my legacy? Yours?
What more can a body do
than what has already been done?
Must each generation top their parents?
Can each generation forge ahead?
In what area?
Madness?
Folly?
Wisdom?
Faithfulness?

God, keep my eyes on the prize, on what
matters.
Set aside pettiness, competition, rivalry.
Let me excel in faith.
And peace.


A Time for Verse: Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes by Barbara B. Rollins

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