God Is So Simple

God is in you

God is in me

God is in what you feel

And God is in what you see

Don’t fret

Don’t calculate

Don’t get into much trouble

Because God is so clear

And God is so simple!

                               March 1, 2011

                             While at a workshop (AAU Social science and Humanities academic staff)

·         To those of us who take ourselves to be intellectuals and miss god always expecting Him to be complex. We have failed to understand that the way the Spirit works is much simpler but still nobler than the intellect works.

Faith Has No Eyes

Faith has no eyes

For it does not need to see

Faith has no ears

For it does not need to hear

Bur even without the two

What it can see and hear

Is so open and clear

                       February 27, 2011

                        02:25 am

                        Ancho Ber, Addis Ababa

Faith Has No Eyes

Faith has no eyes

For it does not need to see

Faith has no ears

For it does not need to hear

Bur even without the two

What it can see and hear

Is so open and clear

                       February 27, 2011

                        02:25 am

                        Ancho Ber, Addis Ababa

Faith Has No Eyes

Faith has no eyes

For it does not need to see

Faith has no ears

For it does not need to hear

Bur even without the two

What it can see and hear

Is so open and clear

                       February 27, 2011

                        02:25 am

                        Ancho Ber, Addis Ababa

What the hell is beauty?

What the hell is beauty

That it should exalt itself so high;

“Truth is beauty and beauty is truth’

What a ‘truth ’and what ‘a lie’

What a misfortune and what a loss

When a beautiful thing such as ‘beauty’

In the world causes such a mess

You are going to tell me

That beauty is God;

And God is beauty

But in whom is then the ‘ugly?’

I know my God will not give such a thing

Not such a sting;

No! He wouldn’t give it

At least not the way we take it.