Humanly Speaking: Conversations With God

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Poetry Volume - 78 Pages

The Holy Scriptures are filled with characters who are role models for us all. But what about the weaker characters? Those with obvious flaws? Perhaps there are lessons to learn from their mistakes. Join Linda Swift as she converses poetically with God in Humanly Speaking: Conversations With God.

Excerpt:

I feel great sympathy for Eve, Lord,

a second-class citizen from the beginning,

having to bear the blame through every generation

for being banned from the Garden of Eden

(which must have been a veritable paradise).

But who could actually fault her

for listening to that snake in the grass

who said forbidden fruit would make her wise?

Should she not be commended

for wanting to increase her knowledge?

And to her credit, she was quick to share

the wisdom fruit with Adam who was, for shame,

as quick to blame her when You caught them

(and became so threatened by what they knew

You turned them out of Eden, their only home).

I can just imagine Adam's querulous mood

when he was forced to work and sweat

to have enough food for his family

for those nine hundred, thirty years.

I don't imagine a single day went by

that Adam didn't tell his wife

how they had it made until she disobeyed You.

It seems to me that Eve deserves a better name

instead of all the blame, Lord.