Today's Surprise

You wait for a better world.
What's wrong with the one you have?
You wait for a liberator
To reproach your inner slave.
You wait to see the face of God,
It's staring you in the eyes.
You wait for a better future,
And you miss today's surprise.

The waiting is a problem,
To which you love to cling.
It's all about the power games,
And the delusions that they bring.
The messianic figure--
Long before you ever knew
Irrupted in creation
In the Spirit's vivid hue.

And the Spirit moves in freedom
Beyond the waiting and the now.
And the Spirit loves relating
When we don't control the "how."
Don't waste your time in waiting
For some God to intervene.
For God was never absent
From creation's epic scene.

~~Diarmuid O'Murchu

O'Murchu, Diarmuid. Catching Up with Jesus: A Gospel Story for Our Time. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2005. 94.