Bedrock

Old Stone Fort Archaeological Park
Manchester, TN

We need to uncreate the world

  that desires more for less,

    no matter the cost

      to planet and other people;

        the world that has profit

      as its bottom line, and

    views the rest of creation

  as a means to the ends

of accumulation and consumption.

My hunch and experience are

  that most of us can

    only see this necessity

      clearly in the context

        of our profound brokenness.

      Grace, love, and

    our deepest interconnection

  are most visible when all

of our faux identities crumble.

If the rest of the world is going

  to recognize and hunger for this,

    we, as a community of believers,

      must become sentinels of hope

    instead of wagging fingers of judgment,

  fountains of grace, rather

than fires of condemnation.

        We must confess our own

      shambled lives and live

    from a foundation of grace

  before God's mercy will ever

ring true for the world. 

© 2016 Todd Jenkins