The Signmaker

XIII.

The Signmaker

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“Make us a sign,” the skeptics said,

          “Make us a sign that in-forms us,

One that reveals who you are.

          If God be the power

And you claim to be God,

          Make us a sign of your power.

Do us a demonstration,

          Walk on water…again;

Save us from pain and death,

          And for Christ’s sake

Don’t let us be alone and lonely;

          Our strength comes from without,

So don’t abandon us to ourselves!”

He drew into the hills to pray alone,

          And as he did He proclaimed:

The Kingdom is within,

          Our Father, who is within you;

You are called to signify this,

          Become a sign of heaven within,

For the power of God is Love,

          For God is Love;

Love without, is love within.

Emptiness…is where the Real is.

       Don’t run from the emptiness,

Don’t solid-fill it;

       Steer by it, as by the North Star,

Make it your bone, your skeleton, your Rock.

For He said,

“The Kingdom of Heaven is within you,”

       Where the emptiness is;

Punch through to the empty center

       And make it your axis.

“Very early in the morning,

       Long before daybreak

He left the house,

       Went out to a lonely place,

An empty place…

       Where He prayed.”

May I come with you?

 For the Kingdom of Heaven

 Is NO “where”;

     NO “place”,

     NO “time”;     

            NO “thing”.

 “Foxes have holes, birds have nests,

  The Son of Man has

     nowhere to lay his head.”

                                       Charlie Mc