The Perfect Church

[Teresa]

The Perfect Church

If you should find the perfect church
Without one fault or smear,
For goodness sake! Don't join that church;
You'd spoil the atmosphere.

If you should find the perfect church
Where all anxieties cease,
Then pass it by, lest by joining it,
You'd mar the masterpiece.

If you should find the perfect church
Then don't you ever dare,
To tread upon such holy ground,
You'd be a misfit there.

But since no perfect church exists,
Made of imperfect men,
Then let's cease looking for that church
And love the church we're in.

Of course, it's not a perfect church
That's simple to discern.
But you and I, and all of us,
Could cause the tide to turn.

What fools we are to flee our post,
In that unfruitful search,
To find at last where problems loom
God proudly builds His church.

So lets' keep working in our church,
Until the resurrection.
And then we each will join that church
Without an imperfection.
               -Mavis Williams

[dnalexander]

Thanks Teresa I really liked Mavis Williams' poem.

David

[Teresa]

It really isn't "me".. and my type of poem.. but being what is running through the forum lately..I thought it fit.