What happened?
I'm watching the world fray
people coming apart with age
issues coming out to play
wreaking havoc on today
It's backwards now
throwing wisdom out
the things we allowed
fully played down
Don't like mine?
Go online
like what you find?
easily Beyonce's, Miley's, Kim's, GaGa's, and Nicki's bare behind
Nothing to hide
No secrets to confide
It's all open wide
It's emptiness inside
The quest for greater
bigger, better, fuller
hotter, younger, louder
permeates the culture
even the church suffers
from counting her members
measuring success in numbers
and spitting out burned workers
she looks at outward expression
and understands it as passion
She separates families into factions
and micro-manages their actions
This is no different than the corporate mold
where self-respect can be sold
where power-mongers rule and hold
where youth throws out its old
Old and young can't reconcile
the church, self-preservation style,
embraces youth culture like wild
and neglects its elders all the while
and outside its walls, the chasm widens
relevance has little to do with trends
with traditions or knowledge or arguments
or how much or how little we can keep from sin
Relevance is Christ and Him crucified
It's our souls and His unified
not appearances scrutinized
or behavior modified
It's Christ's death and resurrection
And that's not just the beginner's lesson
it's every single motivation
It's relevance to every circumstance and situation
It's love accepted and love given
It's full trust in the God of Heaven
It's seeing others as equals, even "heathens"
Because salvation's a gift, not an award for perfection
The older we get the more we see
that issues un-dealt-with start ripping the seams
things come undone, joys lose their satiety
So we search for more, for sanity
