Devotional 02/1991

Why are you hurrying to do all these things?
Why are you rushing, leaving no time for me
Making me and boxing me
Telling me and helping me to be like you
To get the work done.
I am not like you.  Why are you hurrying to do all these things?

The day is burning
The heart churns
The spirit is groaning too deeply for words
And the hurry and the work are all things.

Why are you hurrying to do all these things?
Why are you spending, finding no peace with me
Calling me and needing me
Demanding me and showing me
How to get the work done; to be like you
I am not like you

Your ways are burning yet you won’t let them go
The spirit is groaning too deeply for words
When the hurry and the places are all things.

Why are you going to do all these things?
Where are you going, leaving no place for me?
Entreating me and proving me
Helping me and telling me it’s good
It isn’t always good.  Why are you going to do all these things?

The peace I have to give
Has no place to fit in this tightly woven life
Field to field, house to house, job, to endless job
Til there is no place for me to be alone with you
No place because of the daily grind grind grind
No time
No time for me.