Messy Certainty

What is there certain in a messy world?
We have to deal with it, there is no other,
where do true lovers turn once they have quarreled?
A child’s so lucky to have a good mother.

That life’s a mess for all, we know is true,
“What is truth?” Pilate asked a suffering Christ.
“I’ll rest,” said Mother Therese, “when life is through.”
She knew life’s best when self is sacrificed.

It’s selfishness that makes life such a mess,
both on a personal and worldly scale,
the saints showed there is nothing God can’t bless,
except our sins, the only way we fail.

While messy ones will muddle as we must,
in God Who made the stars we put our trust.

                            by Pete Voelz     10/26/14