Here are a few more haikus. The first one is from a recent movie Koyaanisqatsi. The movie confronted all of us with our fallen human condition, and reminded us of how humans have messed things up on this earth. But the movie pointed to something more - as ugly as our fallen nature is, there's a beauty and grace that transcends it all. Our Christian faith reminds us that we trade in our unfaithfulness for the faithfulness of God..
All I had were rags
God took them in trade for love.
Deal of a lifetime.
One morning, I was sitting in the quiet Sunday morning sun. We had recently been studying the mystic Julian of Norwich, who said "All will be well," and this haiku came to me..
Sun spilling inward
Blazing beauty wakes my eyes.
All's well after all.
And this last haiku is from the same morning as the previous poem, the passage with the servant and master. The haiku says in pithy form what the longer poem says.
What is needed here
not what I think I deserve.
Servanthood essence.
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