God and Nature ​                                                                                 Spring 2021

IMPOSITION OF CARBON

By Katie McFarland 
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​All we, like oil, are incoherent
No inner polarity to guide us
For us, a smudge of 6 protons, 6 electrons, 6 neutrons - matter shattered - labels us aright
 
But, this is just the number of man
 
We are more
 
God caused His mercy to become appalled.
His truth. His troth.
His Word made carbon-covenant and dwelled here
 
All our sooty naught- received, covered, transformed
Made to cohere with the Living Water
A stable ad-mixture
Like loving like.
Emulsifying propitiation
Christ's blood
 
Rend your heart
Worthily lament
 
Don't disdain dust- it is from here we can see God's glory
 
Consecrated-carbon, He would have you for His own.

Katherine McFarland is a first year Master's of Divinity student in the Kairos Program and a poet whose work is inspired by science, God and nature. Grace and truth are iterated throughout all reality, and she loves to hunt for them. She blogs at https://medium.com/@air_conditions

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