ROSES OF GRACE

It’s only by the grace and power of God that we are able to forgive some people. But we are. For the sake of our own inner peace and soul health. We are. Because we want to. And we receive the help to do so. Help to be free of hatred, free of anger, free of bitterness and, eventually, free of hurting and pain.

Sometimes my emotions feel like flowers and today I am full of roses. Love is a strange medicine. It hurts when it heals, and it caresses and brings pleasure when it is actually causing damage. Don’t assume all is well simply because someone is smiling. When they’re crying is usually when they’re most honest and healthy and in the process of healing.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

EVERY THERE

Everywhere you go, the Will of God is there,
Whether you take cognisance of it or not,
It doesn’t care, it is always there, now, everywhere.
We used to know this once. We simply forgot.
It is every here and every there. And ever near.

No thought escapes its jurisdiction
No word and no action
Not even the finest intuitive perception
Will runs its course without Divine retribution
Every seed will come to fruition.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

WORSHIP

When I’m down You give me strength
Atheists say You don’t exist
But You lift me up when I’m depressed
And calm me down and give me rest

How can I express my gratitude?
Nothing I am or give or do
Can come close to repaying You
For being so faithfully kind and merciful

Your Kindness is my sole inspiration
Your goodness os deserving of imitation
Your fidelity to rightness is a lesson
In integrity, severity mixed with compassion

People seek You in prayers and dogmas
In churches, mosques, temples and likewise
I seek You in Kindness and in Goodness
In Bravery, in Purity, in Humility, always.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

NATIVE TO YOU

God’s World is not foreign
It is indigenous
After you’ve finished touring
You return to us

God’s Law is not complex
It is very simple
Needs no super intelligence
To do the needful

God’s Love is not exotic
It is native
Homeliness is romantic
Non-invasive

You are not an alien
In God’s eyes
Be at peace with yourself
And you will rise.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

VISITOR FROM HEAVEN

You were there
I saw you even if many others did not
You were there
I saw you even if even my eyes did not
You were there
I saw you.

I saw you in the swelling of my heart
In the paths that my thoughts did chart
I saw you, for they were thoughts of thee.
Thoughts of all those things which Thou art
The origin, the beginning, the head, the start
I saw you in my sensing of eternity.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PASS IT ON

If you think of how many times
God has forgiven you…
So many sins, so many crimes
God has forgiven you…
In this and in former lifetimes
God has forgiven you…

You would have more compassion
for your fellow humans’
crimes of reason and sins of passion.
For your fellow humans
you would reduce your judgement’s ration.
For you’re fellow humans.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

Poems from the inner river

POWER

All power belongs to God, and only to God. If power is given to you, then you are just temporarily a vessel through which power in part will seek to fulfil the Will of God.

If you try to wield power and to bend it to your own will, and use it solely in service of your own ego and volition, then it will turn against you and destroy you, even if this destruction only becomes obvious to you after you have left this earth and it is too late to stop or reverse your self-destruction via power.

This is the worst kind of destruction, the one that becomes visible only after you have left the earth. You will have to come again as a baby and live a new life, to attempt to painfully undo the errors of the former.

Power is a very strange thing. It is not what you think it is. It is not what you see or think that you are seeing. What you see as power, no matter how obvious or subtle it may be, is just a temporary vessel through which power seeks to fulfil the Will of God. For all power belongs to God.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije.

HEAVEN

To serve God, humbly and quietly
Without pomp and pageantry
Is Heaven.

Modestly and consistently,
With conviction, gratefully.
Expecting no reward,
No recognition, no award –

Because the joy of service
Is reward enough –

Is Heaven.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije

NOT MY EARTHLY, BUT MY HEAVENLY FATHER

What binds me to my earthly father is
Love, duty, gratitude, respect and admiration.

What binds me to my Heavenly Father is
Eternal life,
Eternal gratitude,
Eternal purpose,
Eternal faithfulness here and everywhere,
Now and forever.

Not my earthly – but my Heavenly – Father.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije

ELEMENTARY MOTION

Primary motion, elementary rhythmn, pace, pattern and period is determined or established by the faithfully unceasing – i.e. constant – activity of Substantiality, driven by and helping to carry the driving force of the Will of God, expressed in the natural laws.

All WE do is detect and attempt to measure evidences of this primary rhythmn or elementary motion, and divine or devise (i.e. evolve under the pressure of reception) units with which to uniformly record, report and compute the results of these measurements.

That is, all we can do is adjust to nature, to Creation, and identify order within the pattern of our adjustments. And because there is order in nature, all successful attempts to adjust to nature will settle into orderly patterns, and all observations of those patterns will enable the devising of units of measurements and adherence with which to capture and/or fulfill this system of order.

Science reduces its recognition of this orderly system into equations that symbolise axioms, hypotheses and theorems. On the other hand, Religion breaks down its own recognitions into beliefs, creeds and dogmas. In essence, in which ever sense, all we capture, record, tabulate, systemise and express are our recognitions or assumptiosn based on our observations of elementary motion itself, to which we are subject and out of which, or out of the side effects of which, we emerged in Creation.

With the activity of our free will, we can lift ourselves up into regions of faster manifestation of elementary motion. Or we can also cause ourselves to densify and sink further away from the source of the driving force that powers what we experience, or what we detect, and believe to be primary – or a more primary state – of motion, i.e. we can also sink into regions and perceptions of a more sluggish elementary rhythmn. But the basic logic of elementary motion never changes and always yields uniform laws of motion expressed in the character of the plane being observed.

Elementary motion itsef is, or must be, an expression, or reflection, or vehicle, or echo, of primordial impulse or original life, eternal life, i.e. LIFE itself. An evidence of that GOD whose existence we sense but never can reach; the Origin of Eternity without beginning and without end.

– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.