Brett's Discernment

The Preacher's Mistake

The parish priest
of Austerity
climbed up in a high church steeple
to be nearer God,
so that he might hand
His word down to His people.
When the sun was high,
when the sun was low,
the good man sat unheeding
sublunary things.
From transcendency
was he forever reading
and now and again
he heard the creak of the weather vane a-turning,
he closed his eyes
and said, "Of a truth
from God I now am learning."
And in sermon script
he daily wrote
what he thought was sent down from heaven
and he dropped this down
on his people's heads
two times one day in seven.
In his age God said,
"Come down and die!"
And he cried out from the steeple,
"Where art thou, Lord?"
And the Lord replied,
"Down here among my people."

-Brewer Mattocks