A Lamentation

A Lamentation

                inspired by a conversation with a struggling soul

I wait for God

to clean my house

for I cannot

do it myself

for reasons

I do not understand

and so

I make excuses

and keep putting off

the work

that my soul needs done,

hoping and pleading

for magic and miracle

to sweep me clean

even as I

bring in

even more dust from the streets.

I sing with the Saint

“Not yet! Not yet!”

and another Saint consoles me:

I do not do the good I want,

but the evil I do not want is what I do. (Rom 7:19)

That wretch is a saint!

It’s okay to be a wretch,

for now,

I conclude,

and look to the One

whose mercy

is so much greater

than my messy house.

Thanks be to God

through Jesus Christ our Lord! (Rom 7:25)