ETERNAL REST
Date: Saturday, 1st November 2003 @ 12:23:30 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry
Contributed By: Elizabeth_Dandy
We pray: “Good Lord give them Eternal Rest!”
And ask not what our loved ones would like best;
If resting is the thing they want or not,-
We thus preempt their wish and that of God.
I think Our Father is a Dynamo,
But theologians of some time ago,
Considered that an endless inert rest
Is what departed souls deem to be best.
Without some change in stature or increase,
They contemplate in passiveness and freeze,
Transfixed in states of immobility
And apathy through all eternity.
It seems this fixed immobility is not
Participation in the life of God,
But fullness, in continuous increase
Of fullness ever growing - not a freeze.
The Living One would hate paralysis
Amidst His children and abhor that freeze
For God is dynamo and can’t be pleased
With fullness that can’t be yet more increased
Increase and growth surprise and wonderment
Would go along with bliss and ravishment;
What disappointment for the young would be
Duration fixed - and its monotony!
If youth holds sway in heaven, then the Lord
Might see some of His children somewhat bored,
For youth holds dear zest and mobility,
And find too flat an eternullity.
And might prefer to speedily retire
To low realms where there still lives “Desire”,-
Desire’s increase,- the well-known element
Of which great mystics speak and comprehend.
Am I too bold? - maybe -but Charles Peguy,
Our literature’s Bach,- agrees with me,
And in his splendid writings does assert:
“Departed souls are active and alert!”
And St. Teresa said:” My heaven’s bliss
It will consist in work for your increase;
And all my heaven’s happiness will be
To work and pray for you incessantly!”
The Lord, the boundless source of all that is,
The bubbling spring of life demands increase
May torrent -like with thundering cascade
Overwhelm some theologians‘ “final state”
Might give strong impulses to all of those
That rest and are contented with repose
And drive his Blessed Ones to leap and bound
To seek for MORE upon His boundless ground.
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