7-8-2014

From 7-8-2014 USA Today section of the Nashville Tennessean

Coinciding on the same day, the newspaper reports: Pope Francis asking forgiveness for years of silence on proven child molestation practices in the Catholic Church

Simple Transformations

By the time the Vatican children got the Psalms
Encrypted acrostics were lost on them.
Still the spirit came through postmortem
To come across with the balms.
In the condensing of 150 crafted pleas,
Lay people got the rosary
Like silk led way to hosiery
Kindness slips in from worms to tootsies.
Not all our greatest aspirations
Owe we to high-minded intents
When we come up short and bent
God abides in basement gyrations:
Off center, never; calm in the middle. 
Doing the work with what we think little.