God

THE GOD OF THE WILLING

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We cannot use God to hide away from the world. Rather we should use God to engage with, decipher and overcome the world. Above all, the world within us. God is not for cowards or weaklings. God is for the brave, the bold, the adventurous, the determined, the open, those who are ready to use the earthlife for that for which it was granted to them: to experience, and to grow through this experiencing.

The form or the content of the experiencing is different for each person. For some it is a quiet thing they need to experience, for others it is a loud thing; for some it is a popular thing they must dare, for others it is an unpopular or even a seemingly inconsequential thing; for some it is a controversial thing, for others it is a safe and boring and therefore annoying and unbearable thing; for some it is personal love, for others it is objective love.

Everybody has those things that will call their heart deeply – and running to God will still not free you from them. There is no escape because it is inside you. God is not there to hide you from yourself or from your challenges. God is there to help you to deal with them. That is why HE granted you this earth life, because HE knows you will need every second of whatever length of time you earned for yourself in this current incarnation.

So, get to work! Go for it. Set off with the business of living by experiencing. God will help you if you are brave and honest.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Undulating Plains

BONDS

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We belong to God,
Not to one another.
Possessiveness is flawed,
No one owns the other.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

THE HURTING LOVE

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The Love of God
Will hurt you -
Make no mistake about that -
In order to cure you.

Are you ready to grow?
To reap what you sow?
To be polished until you glow?
To go with the flow
Wherever God’s wind may blow?

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

PAIN AND GAIN

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Without the pain
My life would have been so empty,
My spirit’s real gain
Are the lessons and they are plenty.

It is really possible
To lose a person and become whole,
It is really possible
To lose the world and gain your soul.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

LIGHT TRAVEL

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Travel light
For the road has all you need
But pack right -
The important things - and Godspeed.
Have a good flight.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river

ROSES OF GRACE

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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