Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Editor's note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can't operate the capital shift keys, and he shuns punctuation marks – except dashes and hyphens.
boss i don t know if
people folks like
you ever have any
problems like this
but we have a
noisy loud-mouthed
preacher toad down
here in the church
pew underworld
he rants and he
raves he prances
and he parades
he yells at trembling
little ants and fleas
he stomps and he
hollers enough to
shake the trees
did i tell you he was
a bit obnoxious boss
question mark here
i preach and i teach
i teach and i preach
says he to any sad
soul willing to
listen i can tell
you what s wrong
with you - and how
to make things right
yep that s our buddy
theodore toad but
everybody calls him
thumper because he
hops around and
pounds on his bible
all the time
anyway thumper got
depressed the other day
boss it seems nobody was
listening to him
so he up and goes to
see the most spiritual
bug in the kingdom
virgil the praying mantis
virgil what s wrong
with everybody i keep
yelling and preaching
and teaching and telling
them what s wrong
but nobody cares
nobody really listens
maybe you re playing
the part of amateur
providence in other s
lives and they don t
see it as a good role
for you virgil says
in fact i m not sure
god sees it as a good
role for you
just what do you
mean by that crack
thumper says rather
defensively
oh nothing virgil
replies undaunted it s
just that sometimes we
can be so noisy in our
instruction of others that
god can t get anywhere
near us to teach us
but you don t see i feel
like i always have to
have an answer for god
says thumper
oh really virgil says
god can t answer for
himself - or is it that
he s really worried
about what any creature
says about him and his
creation or that he s
afraid the clay pot will
shake its fist in his face as
the master potter
no not necessarily
thumper says thoughtfully
i guess i hadn t thought
of things like that
sometimes we have to
keep our mouths shut and
our spirits alert says
virgil the prayer warrior
god wants to instruct us
about his son and he wants
to turn our times of prayer
into mounts of transfiguration
but we won t let him
anytime we re certain of
the way god is going to
work he may never work
in that way again
god won t be put in a box to
be categorized or analyzed -
he just simply wants
us to get to know him
amos
