In HIS NAME

we gather in HIS NAME on Sundays

and sometimes on Wednesdays 

but seldom other days...

we feel justified in our presence

and in our approach as

we alone rule our faith like a

Cape Hatteras light house

without the "come along" beacon    

for the strays that wander

along her rocky coastlines;

we gather in HIS NAME as is appropriate 

hoping for salvation but expecting

more than just our death,

we see our justification in works

in which we participate often

as insurance for our reward,

seeing the light neither at the end

or the beginning of the tunnel

crawling our way to forgiveness

because it says so shall you reap as sow

knowing our restraints are weak;

we gather in HIS NAME and see neither

HIM nor HIS light as we manifest

our beliefs by our attendance,

seeing the sin in absence but

not in weekly observations of our

own limited conditions believing that

in which we know to be true.

25 October 2020