An Advent Reflection on Isaiah

Response to Ghandi

Will there really be a day
when men will beat their swords into plowshares
and the lion will lie down with the lamb
and Righteousness will rule?

I see myself
and wonder if, first,
I must not be annihilated

For all my queries about the power of God
in a world of starving children
and murderous appetites
and well-fed hatred
are ultimately doubts about
my own gluttonous soul.


Mom found this in the book, Ghandi, after Dad’s death. Perhaps, she says, I had shown Dad this piece which (she says) I wrote--though I certainly don't remember writing it. It must have been sometime around 1978 or 79. He had copied it down and placed it in the book.