Jack Pelham

This man understood some things
Or a sort most will never
Lift a finger to understand.

Most, then, will never know
How many fingers he had to lift
To get the understanding he got.

And it’s like this with more than just physics.

There is no person God did not put
In this beautiful-ugly world, where,
The same as everybody else,
He could reach out for God
If he wanted while he is here.

They all show us who they are,
Even as the scriptures―
And experience in this world―
Show them who they could be
If they wanted.

The very being here is a
Test of the will of man.

It says right there in the Bible
That God’s thoughts and ways
Are higher than man’s.
And even so, it charges man in
What must be a hundred different ways
To get busy learning.

It’s Him.
Him’s the guy that needs a talking-to anytime soon.
But Him won’t listen to anybody but Him Self.
And you can bet that Mr. Him Stubborn Self
Is so not going to be starting up that conversation
Anytime soon!

Some see Christianity as a quest
That, once begun, must be completed.

Others see it as a battle
Having been won at its very start.

What say you?

At any moment in Wordle and religion alike,
The puzzler is limited by what he can think of.

Have you considered the possibility that someone can be right by accident, believing a true thing, but doing so based on faulty fact, logic, and sourcing?

Uh, friend,
You are, yourself,
Caught up in the very
Artifice and scheme of which
You are warning everyone else here.
If it is so important that they all
Should be warned about it―
And I’m not saying that
It’s not, mind you―
It is not equally
Important for
You to be
Wholly
Freed
Of it,
Too?

At 10 years old, troubled Jeffrey had not yet learned much of the concept of good and evil. Having little of the concept themselves, his parents hadn’t considered it important to teach him much other than to do chores for them―and not to bother them, of course.

He chalked up to mystery some things
That might otherwise have been solved,
Even as he considered solved some things
That God had intended still to be mysteries.