Corinthian Reflection
by Kim Deppe

Freedom reeks of slavery.
Sold into our own desires,
pushed into gluttony and hedonism
by our own commitment to self.
Lost in free will
wandering through forests of black thoughts,
bold desires, lust for more.
God gave me choices,
all of them.
I swing from chaste to haste, giddiness to fright,
serving to slavery.
Picking my way through paths littered with my faithless thoughts,
overcome by brambles of pain or sorrow,
thrashing through low branches hung with remorse.
The wooded way of my life
is peppered with regrets
and sprinkled with the dappled sunlight of Christ's love.
When I surrender my selfish freedom and seek the sun,
the Son finds me and wraps his wings of love around me.
Trapped in loving arms and not free - yet completely free to be
to be blessed, not cursed
to be loving, not lost
to seek and find.
"Everything is permissible," says the Lord, "but not everything is beneficial."
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1 COR 10:23,24
"Everything is permissible - but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible - but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others."