Monday, September 21, 2015

Grit

"We clap for the truth." --Brene Brown


I thought it was not my best performance.
And people said it was wonderful.

I wondered what I had missed.
What was IT,
Beyond my tied tongue,
Beyond my vacant stares,
Beyond my incoherent ramblings,
Beyond my sweat drenched shirt?

And if I asked, people said it was
The silence,
The introspection,
The truth,
The raw truth.

People said no one noticed those other things.
And I thought it wouldn't have been wonderful if they didn't.

1 Corinthians: 1:27-31 
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.