Friday's Faith - Are Our Brains Strange, or... Preparing to Change?

Friday's Faith

Are Our Brains Strange,

or... Preparing to Change?

Do you think it strange

When you can't trust your brain?

Before you can speak,

Your mind skips a beat;

Details once remembered --

Not key, so they up and skimpered.

Folks who need you strong

Now look at you wrong,

Not ~ "tested for a time,"

but, "Oh my! She's lost her mind!"

When our child was killed,

Were our brain cells killed ~

Or were they pushed aside

For a much bigger task assigned?

We won't always understand though,

For there's much in Heav'n we can't know.

But we trust it all will fit into place

When we see our Jesus face to face.

Be patient with your brain...

It's the storm before grief's rain.

Even as God will comfort give,

He'll teach anew how to live.

Do you think it strange

When you can't trust your brain?

Perhaps God uses pain

To redesign our brain...

To focus on what matters

Away from all that clatters.

What we think is strange

On this planet earth

Is perhaps needed change

To shrink our "god-like" girth,

To remind us of our need

To hearken to His voice and heed.

God, rework the neural pathways

That we may follow Your ways.

In this state of flux, move in ~

Give us hearts that yearn for Thee

"O God, Create a clean heart within,

And then, Renew a right spirit within me!"

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

~Psalm 51:10 (ASV)

ASV - American Standard Version of The Holy Bible

Poem - Are Our Brains Strange, or... Preparing to Change? - Angie Bennett Prince - 1/6/2011