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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Symptoms of Something Amiss


 The doctor tells us to know our physical bodies,
to be tuned keenly to them so we are aware when something seems off.
Good advice but it got me to thinking we should also be tuned keenly
to the 'spiritual body' aka Undying Soul so we are aware when something seems a little off.

The land in lack of rain is not asymptomatic.
 (a word that's been used a lot recently due to COVID-19)
...and we welcome, like little else, the refreshment of much needed rain!
Symptoms of spiritual drought are just as visible
 though discussed much less than weather!
(BTW, this poem is a self-evaluation exam, not a pointing-fingers-at-you poem
but praying the Holy Spirit will convict all of us of present symptoms
and perhaps our need for spiritual refreshment?!)

Can we truly say with David in Psalm 63:1?

You, God, are my God,
    earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
    my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
    where there is no water.

Symptoms suggest illness
Help pinpoint the source
Symptoms are the telltale signs
Of something off course

Physical or spiritual
Symptoms usually are
The inklings that implicate
Something not on par

Good to be tuned keenly
To body and soul
Diagnose the point before
It consumes the whole

Fear and faith, keen rivals
Cannot coexist
Symptoms tend to escalate
If left unaddressed 

Good to be tuned closely
To the inner core
Recognizing symptoms
We should not ignore
 
© Janet Martin

The church in this COVID-19 season,
is before the firing squad of differing opinion
like we have never experienced.
Maybe time for each of us to do a serious
spiritual check-up? 
How humble and obedient are we willing to be?


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