Chronic Illness – a Haiku poem
I wrote this Haiku poem after an intense session of Contemplative Prayer.
Why am I so ill?
My digestion is so messed up
My feet are collapsed
This might be my “cross”
To carry in Christ’s footsteps
How I’m to know him
Maybe it helps me
A “thorn in the flesh” like Paul
Keeping me humble
Is it redemptive?
I suffer as a victim
Praying for others
Is it from Satan?
Keeping me ill and in pain
Cursing me daily
Have I earned these ills?
By action-packed years abroad
Over-living life
Does God punish us?
Make us suffer since our birth?
For our unknown slights
Must I accept it?
Can I claim health by firm words
Can great faith heal me?
Is it in my genes?
A defect in my bloodline
Inevitable
What of the future?
Will I always have illness?
Will it end someday?
These things I ponder
As I sit in prayer today
Lord, what do you think?
Take these ills away
So I don’t have to suffer
Or let them remain
Father to your hands
I commit my body’s ills
May your will be done
October 1, 1998
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